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.
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.
More E. O. Wilson Quotes
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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We 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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