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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

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 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

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

Better, Discovery, High

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

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, Having, Them

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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, Means, Biodiversity

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

Environmental, Meal, Burning

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

Next, Ants, Most

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

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

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

World, Input, Mapping

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

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, Two-Thirds, Almost

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

None, Waged, Tolerating

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

Deal, Tone, Dialect

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

Blind, Test, Human Condition

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs. E. O. Wilson

Next, Other, Any Other Way

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

Deep, Natural, Within

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

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

Over, Ants, Habitats

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

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