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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. "

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

" 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. "

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