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E. O. Wilson Quotes

American - Scientist | June 10, 1929 -

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Nature Spiritual Key Aesthetic Even

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

Failure Alone Path Best World Goal

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

Nature Bird Tree You Seen Ant

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Wisdom Time Together People World

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

Learn Humanity Understand Come Means

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

Environmental Chaos World Rich Back

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

Life Alone Rest Humanity Land Out

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

Organization Earth Complicated Ants

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

Truth Spiritual World Humanity Way

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

Change Die Will Old Hard False

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

Growth Environmental Search Behavior

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

Life Rest Land Dead Ants Creatures

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