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Earth Quotes by E. O. Wilson

14 Earth quotes by E. O. Wilson

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E. O. Wilson’s words on Earth distill his deep love for the natural world into bite‑size wisdom. Though the collection is brief, each quote underscores his conviction that understanding biodiversity is essential to preserving the planet’s fragile balance.

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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

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'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as…

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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

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The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

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Biology has finally opened up to achieve a unifying embrace of all its disciplines. We're seeing the renaissance of what could be…

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We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of…

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Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution…

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Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study…

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Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if…

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Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth…

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The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it…

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Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and…

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Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of…

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We have to create a sustainable environment, worldwide, and we're not doing it. The best thing we can do with the rest…

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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…

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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…

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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups…

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When all else fails, men turn to reason.

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The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race…

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Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species'…

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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…

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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…

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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is…

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The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of…

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