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" Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking. "

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" It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt. "

" Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution. "

" I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. "

" The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can. "

" Because the living environment is what really sustains 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. "

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

" The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago. "

" One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. "

" America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. "

" I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories. "

" 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. "

" I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. "

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

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

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

" The education of women is the best way to save the environment. "

" 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. "

" All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments. "

" I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it. "

" Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input. "

" But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture. "