Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. WILSONDestroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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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 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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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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