The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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