"Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled……" — E. O. Wilson
"Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius."
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194 Quotes by E. O. Wilson
E. O. Wilson has 194 quotes on this site.
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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 natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services,…
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose…
— Tom Robbins
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There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts…
— Paul Broca
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The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to…
— Robert M. Price
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At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which…
— Unknown Author
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has…
— Gail Sheehy
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But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess…
— Garry Kasparov
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When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there…
— Plato
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I pledge you, pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The crucified but risen Jesus appears in the believing, assembled community of the church. That this sense of the risen,…
— Edward Schillebeeckx
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