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" But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world. "
E. O. Wilson
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" So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, 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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" It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. "
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" If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. 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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" I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. "
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" In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. "
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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 inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty. "
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