If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
E. O. WILSONThis is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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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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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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