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

E. O. Wilson Quotes

American - Scientist Born: June 10, 1929

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

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

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

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

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

Rest, Months, Mostly

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, Starving, About

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

Environmental, Meal, Burning

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

Environment, Living, Because

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

Top 10
E. O. Wilson
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them. E. O. Wilson

Ants, Almost, Two-Thirds

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

Away, Ants, Take

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

Environment, Best Way, Save

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

Always, Belong, Been

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

Discovery, Better, High

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, Fairness, Very

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

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. E. O. Wilson

Think, I Think, Ants

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

Activity, Lobbying, Though

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? E. O. Wilson

Erase, Resolve, Discovered

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

Humanism, Another, Provided

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan. E. O. Wilson

Percent, Kinds, Whole

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago. E. O. Wilson

Rain, Over, Historical

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

Winning, Mind, Even

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions. E. O. Wilson

Religious, Itself, Form

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

Disturbed, Arid, Were

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