The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

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.

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.