Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
E. O. WILSONIf insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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 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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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