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

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

Nature, Tree, Bird

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

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, Best, Path

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

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

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

Environmental, Painting

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

Diversity, Loss, Forgive

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

Organization, Earth, Social

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

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. E. O. Wilson

Life, Alone, Humanity

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

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, Growth

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. E. O. Wilson

Faith, Science, Blind

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

Living, Environment, Us

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals. E. O. Wilson

Win, Selfish, Group

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching. E. O. Wilson

Deep, Ethics, Generosity

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

Great, Good, Character

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships. E. O. Wilson

Great, Value, Survival

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. E. O. Wilson

Time, Effort, Start

In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty. E. O. Wilson

Time, Today, Loyalty

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

Science, Mind, Political

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. E. O. Wilson

Profound, Sometimes, Wrong

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

Small, Research, Evolution

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. E. O. Wilson

Deep, Wish, Look

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can. E. O. Wilson

Challenges, Improve, Planet

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere. E. O. Wilson

World, Dream, Living

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