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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. - E. O. Wilson

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

Nature, Spiritual, Key, Intellectual

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. - E. O. Wilson

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

Nature, Tree, Bird, You, Seen, Ant

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. E. O. Wilson

Failure, Path, Best, Alone, World, Goal

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. E. O. Wilson

Environmental, Chaos, World, Rich, Back

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

Organization, Earth, Complicated, Next

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

Humanity, Learn, Understand, Use, Should

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. E. O. Wilson

Me, World, You, Principal, Ants, Tell

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. E. O. Wilson

Wisdom, Time, Together, Choices, World

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. E. O. Wilson

Mind, Believe, Biology, Human Mind, Gods

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

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

Change, Die, Will, Old, Hard, Beliefs

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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake. E. O. Wilson

Ideas, World, Real, Own, Emerge, Part

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. E. O. Wilson

Growth, Environmental, Search, Behavior

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. E. O. Wilson

Science, Mind, Political, Corrupt

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. E. O. Wilson

Environmental, Painting, Meal, Economic

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. E. O. Wilson

Great, Blessed, Me, Debt, Say, New

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input. E. O. Wilson

Brain, World, Map, Sensory, Constant

The education of women is the best way to save the environment. E. O. Wilson

Education, Women, Best, Environment, Way

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. E. O. Wilson

Failure, Alone, Effort, Lost, Moral, Way

Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end. E. O. Wilson

Growth, Win, End, Better, Try, Will

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character. E. O. Wilson

Good, Character, Great, Quality, Saying

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God? E. O. Wilson

God, Thoughts, Important, Evolution

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution. E. O. Wilson

Research, Small, You, Evolution, Will

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. E. O. Wilson

Heart, Winning, Mind, Win, Even

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. E. O. Wilson

Society, Group, Results, Sin, Altruism

We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there. E. O. Wilson

Rain, Animal, Plant, Living, Earth, Need

Because the living environment is what really sustains us. E. O. Wilson

Environment, Living, Us, Because, Really

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