Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. WILSONWhen you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
More E. O. Wilson Quotes
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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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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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 world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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