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.
E. O. WILSONWe are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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