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" It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere. "
E. O. Wilson
Finding
Exploring
Dream
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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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" 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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" The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere. "
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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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" 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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" Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. "
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" I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect. "
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" The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. "
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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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" It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are. "
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Without
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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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Deep
Become
" By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. "
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Measure
Science
" True character arises from a deeper well than religion. "
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Religion
Than
" 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. "
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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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Energy
Cycling
" Without 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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I Can
Debt
Blessed
" Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. "
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Heart
Even
" If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. "
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Desire
Science
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" Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years. "
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Over
" 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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Failure
Way
Alone
" Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. "
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Even
Nature
" Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input. "
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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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Writer
" There is no better high than discovery. "
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" We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. 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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Think
" 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. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. "
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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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Way
Creating
" To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. "
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Close
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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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