Ants Quote by E. O. Wilson

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects…

— E. O. Wilson

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use…

— Lewis Thomas

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use…

— Lewis Thomas

While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we were to…

— E. O. Wilson

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

— E. O. Wilson

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

— E. O. Wilson

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about…

— E. O. Wilson

“Ants brilliantly self-organized to evolve remarkably robust and hugely successful and sophisticated physical and social structures, but it took them millions of years to…

— Geoffrey West

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

— E. O. Wilson

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they…

— E. O. Wilson

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

— Gerald Brenan

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

— E. O. Wilson