Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. WILSONAnts have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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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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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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