There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. WILSONThe world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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