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. WILSONWell, 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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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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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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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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