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Nature 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.
- Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative,…
- 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.…
- Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy…
- We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices, i.e. clean air…
- Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
- Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for…
- The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution…
- If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can…
- The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in…
- Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
- Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
- When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
- We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
- Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.
- Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more…
- Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.
- To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning…
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle