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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 insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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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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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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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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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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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.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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 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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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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