Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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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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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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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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