Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. WILSONWe 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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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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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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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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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