"Secular humanists can sit around and talk about……" — E. O. Wilson
"Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass."
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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 Funeral Quotes
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one of 514 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.
— Rodney Atkins
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To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
— Charles Baudelaire
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular…
— George Ade
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
— Yogi Berra
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I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending…
— Erma Bombeck
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I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the…
— Albert Brooks
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
— John Burroughs
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
— Eddie Cantor
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let…
— Tupac Shakur
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