"I turned to the teeming small creatures that……" — E. O. Wilson
"I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world."
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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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Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious…
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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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