Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. WILSONThis is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
More E. O. Wilson Quotes
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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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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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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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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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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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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