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" The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is no better high than discovery. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them. "

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