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From 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…
- From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery…
- Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.
- True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
- If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land.…
- 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…
- 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 or…
- True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen…
- Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our…
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