Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. WILSONIf history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
More E. O. Wilson Quotes
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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.
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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.
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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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