Years ago Quote by Geoffrey West

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

— E. O. Wilson

Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the…

— E. O. Wilson

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized…

— Lewis Thomas

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they…

— E. O. Wilson

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants'…

— Bernard Werber

So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only…

— E. O. Wilson

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use…

— Lewis Thomas

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use…

— Lewis Thomas

“Just because an individual ant seems to wander around aimlessly, doesn't mean a colony of ants will behave this way. This is sometimes known…

— Rich Jolly

Ants are a curious race

— Robert Frost

Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue…

— Lewis Thomas

“Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for…

— Anonymous