"Known as the biosphere to scientists and as……" — E. O. Wilson
"Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named."
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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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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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Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital…
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