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

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. What is happening to the rain forests of Madagascar and Brazil will affect us all.

There is no better high than discovery.

The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs.