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" In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. "

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" Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. "

" The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. "

" 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. "

" It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships. "

" People respect nonfiction but they read novels. "

" 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. "

" The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. "

" I'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. "

" 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. "

" For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization. "

" Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. "

" In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. "

" Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions. "

" We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. "

" There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs. "

" Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake. "

" 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. "

" We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there. "

" Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine. "

" When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. "

" Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. "

" Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. "

" It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are. "

" Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. "

" What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species. "

" If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. "

" To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. "

" In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work. "

" If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months. "

" When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan. "