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.
E. O. WILSONI’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
More E. O. Wilson Quotes
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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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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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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