We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. WILSONIf insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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