Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments. — 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
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
The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life -… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands)… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We have to create a sustainable environment, worldwide, and we're not doing it. The best thing we can do with the rest… — 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
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If you go from the USA - which, relative to the rest of the world, is in pretty good shape in terms… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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