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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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" 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 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. "

" For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization. "

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

" Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. "

" We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. "

" Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions. "

" 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. "

" The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. "

" Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine. "

" People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive. "

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

" Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. "

" In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "