"The ant world is a tumult, a noisy……" — E. O. Wilson

"The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth."

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194 Quotes by E. O. Wilson

E. O. Wilson has 194 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment…
Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious…
Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living…
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane…
No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know…
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat…
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or…
Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird,…
[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 Ant Quotes

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May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. — Jonathan Carroll
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's… — Adam Ant
No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. — Victor Hugo
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus… — Charles Darwin
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has… — Winston Churchill
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird,… — E. O. Wilson
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no… — Clarence Day
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and… — Murray Rothbard
It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only… — Michio Kaku
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass. — Ben Hecht
I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and… — Oren Lyons

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