"Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of……" — E. O. Wilson
"Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms."
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194 Quotes by E. O. Wilson
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The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment…
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Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
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Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
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Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious…
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Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living…
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Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane…
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No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know…
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The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat…
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The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or…
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Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
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The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird,…
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The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will…
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a…
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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.
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The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training…
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One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his…
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God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.
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The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
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That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the…
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It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the…
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We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the…
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