E. O. Wilson
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Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds fluttering around in the canopy. You are drastically imperiling a vast array of species within a few square miles of you. The number of these species may go to tens of thousands. Many of them are still unknown to science, and science has not yet discovered the key role undoubtedly played in the maintenance of that ecosystem, as in the case of fungi, microorganisms, and many of the insects. ✨ Naturally Good: A Behavioral History of Moral Development from Charles Darwin to E.O. Wilson. Book by John Henry Morgan, 2005.

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