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.
E. O. WILSONYou 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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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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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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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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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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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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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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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