Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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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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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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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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