Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
E. O. WILSONPeople 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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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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The 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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