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. WILSONThe education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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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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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 have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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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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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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