Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. WILSONDestroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
More E. O. Wilson Quotes
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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