In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
E. O. WILSONWithout 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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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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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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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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