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 war, use…

— Lewis Thomas

Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the…

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

— E. O. Wilson

Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent…

— Bert Holldobler

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

— E. O. Wilson

Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue…

— Lewis Thomas

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

— E. O. Wilson

We are human beings, not ants.

— Jami Attenberg

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.

— Lewis Thomas