- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Critically
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
- Nov 07, 2020
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
- Ants
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- Nov 07, 2020
But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
- Habitats
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
- Map
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- Nov 07, 2020