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.
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.
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.
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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.
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 education of women is the best way to save the environment.
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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.
There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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.
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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.
Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
