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

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, Aesthetic, Cognitive

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, Prepare, However

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

Ants, Next, Most

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, Back, Existed

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, Bird, Ant

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

Learn, Biodiversity, Means

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

Ants, Dominant, Predators

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

Die, Will, Die Hard

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

Run, About, Starving

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. E. O. Wilson

Folly, Habitats, Correct

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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world. E. O. Wilson

Ants, Social, Becoming

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

Environmental, New, Very

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. E. O. Wilson

Cost, Living, Standard

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization. E. O. Wilson

Me, Organization, Level

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. E. O. Wilson

Grow, Period, Ardent

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

Environment, Save, Best Way

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. E. O. Wilson

Away, Take, Ants

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive. E. O. Wilson

Alive, Larger, However

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. E. O. Wilson

Over, Southern, Supernatural

There is no better high than discovery. E. O. Wilson

Better, Discovery, High

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

Environmental, Meal, Burning

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

Another, Provided, Humanism

Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine. E. O. Wilson

Never, Mine, Period

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. E. O. Wilson

Two, Them, Having

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 world for more than 50-million years. E. O. Wilson

Ants, Over, Habitats

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. E. O. Wilson

Waged, None, Tolerating

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