One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
E. O. WILSONCompanies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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