by Edward O. Wilson
http://pro-libertate.net/20121228/194-read-anthill
Excellent account of the bizarre behaviors of the inhabitants of our universe, both insect and human.
The story of a boy who falls in love with a tract of wilderness in Alabama and makes it his lifelong goal to save it from development. He studies ants during his trips and eventually writes his thesis about the lives of these ants. This is included as a section in the novel. Terrific. I will nev...
Wonderful! Except that now I feel kind of bad killing ants.
I wouldn’t have read this book if I used the rule about not reading a book if you aren’t interested in the first 50 pages. I had an ulterior motive – this book was being read for America’s Wild Read Book Discussion, but, as usual, I was too late. The discussion closed a week or 2 before I got around...
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