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Diversity Quotes by E. O. Wilson
- Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
- Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that…
- No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure how many species…
- The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.
- The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.…
- Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place.…
- The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.
- There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.
- We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the restoration of natural…
- The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction…
- 'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
- Biology is a science of three dimensions. The first is the study of each species across all levels of biological organization, molecule to cell to…
More Diversity Quotes
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity. — Arthur Ashe
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. — Lord Acton
- You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. — Joan Baez
- A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot
- We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others. — Pearl Bailey
- We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. — Abigail Adams
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James A. Baldwin
- A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin