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E. O. Wilson
Top 10 E. O. Wilson Quotes, American
Total Quotes : 26
Mind
Badly
Persuading
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.
- E. O. Wilson
Environmental
Meal
Burning
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
- E. O. Wilson
Rest
Ants
Creatures
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
- E. O. Wilson
Deep
Fairness
Very
I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
- E. O. Wilson
Blind
Test
Human Condition
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
- E. O. Wilson
Ants
Two-Thirds
Almost
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.
- E. O. Wilson
Disturbed
Arid
Were
All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
- E. O. Wilson
Next
Ants
Most
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
- E. O. Wilson
Environmental
New
Very
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
- E. O. Wilson
World
Input
Mapping
Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
- E. O. Wilson
Nature
Aesthetic
Cognitive
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
- E. O. Wilson
Environment
Living
Because
Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
- E. O. Wilson
Folly
Correct
Habitats
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
- E. O. Wilson
Nature
Bird
Ant
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
- E. O. Wilson
Environmental
Back
Existed
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.
- E. O. Wilson
Bring
Facing
Attempt
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
- E. O. Wilson
Run
Starving
About
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
- E. O. Wilson
Always
Belong
Been
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
- E. O. Wilson
Think
I Think
Ants
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
- E. O. Wilson
Better
Discovery
High
There is no better high than discovery.
- E. O. Wilson
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