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

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

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

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.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.