The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Sstudying ants just quickly became part of me because I was allowed to wander, explore and find things and figure things out… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share
The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species'… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share
The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share
The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share
Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and we can… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share
