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
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
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
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear… — 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
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth… — 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
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In science, you really do need to have a purpose-driven life. You will succeed to the extent that you get the most… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish… — 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
There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard… let us not… — 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
Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Every kid has a bug period, I like to say, and I just got so fascinated and I had that experience, that… — 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
Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not… — 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
