translation.en: By my college years, I was a devoted myrmecologist, a specialist on the biology of ants, but my attention and research continued to make journeys across the great variety of life on Earth in general -- including all that it means to us as a species, how little we understand it and how pressing a danger that our activities have created for it.
translation.zh: 读大学的时候，我对于蚂蚁研究很有热情 我是一位研究蚂蚁的专家 我的关注点以及研究都 围绕地球上巨大的生物多样性而展开 包括这对我们人类意味着什么，以及为何我们对此所知甚少 还有人类活动正在对生物多样性构成的严重威胁