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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

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

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, World, Chaos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Science, Political, Mind

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

Purpose, People, Find

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

Organization, Earth, Next

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

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments. E. O. Wilson

Three, Born, Religions

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, Beliefs

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

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

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, School

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

Sometimes, Profound, Wrong

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

Better, Discovery, High

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

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind. E. O. Wilson

Mind, Evolution, View

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. E. O. Wilson

Time, Colleagues, Altruism

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

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