Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
From E. O. Wilson
The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
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.
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.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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