"If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little……" — E. O. Wilson
"If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people,"
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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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More Acres Quotes
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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and…
— Samuel Beckett
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My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four…
— Dave Brubeck
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It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.
— Betty Buckley
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It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which…
— Dick Cheney
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Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can…
— George A. Sheehan
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And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other…
— Jean de Joinville
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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
— Red Auerbach
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Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives…
— Orison Swett Marden
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That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have…
— Camille Flammarion
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It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.
— Keith Preston
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