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One Quotes by E. O. Wilson
- 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 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.…
- 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…
- No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and…
- 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.…
- Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it…
- The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a…
- 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…
- It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in…
- We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world…
- The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the…
- When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
- What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
- 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…
- One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
- People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way…
- 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…
- One planet, one experiment.
- In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations…
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