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" The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God? "

" Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. "

" An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat. "

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

" 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. "

" The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world. "

" 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 human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere. "

" Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest. "

" It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. "

" Because the living environment is what really sustains us. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. "

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

" The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined. "

" True character arises from a deeper well than religion. "