Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. WILSONDestroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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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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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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