Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
E. O. WILSONEvery kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Ants 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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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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 moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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