Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
E. O. WILSONThe education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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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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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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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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