One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
E. O. WILSONWe are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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.
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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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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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