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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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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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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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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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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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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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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