"Ideas emerge when a part of the real……" — E. O. Wilson
"Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake."
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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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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the…
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic,…
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of…
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Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped…
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More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles,…
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When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease,…
— Sun Tzu
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What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something…
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Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in…
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