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Living 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.
- Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.
- Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at…
- Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.
- The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.
- Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
- America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
- 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 biosphere.
- We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and…
- In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations…
- 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…
- The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest…
- Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.
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- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
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- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
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