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.
E. O. WILSONBecause the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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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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