"The work on ants has profoundly affected the……" — E. O. Wilson
"The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans."
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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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On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted…
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the…
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The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.
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Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is…
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I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.
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