If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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