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Ants Quotes by E. O. Wilson
- The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not…
- When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
- Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
- Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
- Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
- I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with…
- In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
- The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
- The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
- An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind…
- Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world…
- But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated…
- Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in…
More Ants Quotes
- Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. — Mortimer Adler
- I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. — A. S. Byatt
- May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. — Jonathan Carroll
- I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear… — Adam Ant
- No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. — Victor Hugo
- It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully… — Charles Darwin
- There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been… — Winston Churchill
- 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
- Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights.… — Clarence Day
- The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then… — Murray Rothbard
- We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. — Gerald Brenan