We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
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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.
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The one process ongoing in the 1980s 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 that our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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