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

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

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.

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.