In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
E. O. WILSONAim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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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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