The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species… — 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… — 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 natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to… — 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
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
[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. — 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
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. — 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
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
The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to… — 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
We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look… — 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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