In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
E. O. WILSONThe 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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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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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