E. O. WilsonThirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year. ✨ Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. November 17, 2006.361HumanityPolitics
E. O. WilsonWhen 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 unkn… ▶372Time
E. O. WilsonNo one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure how many species there are, where they can be found or how fast the… ▶372Reading
E. O. WilsonIt's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment … ▶351HumanityLife
E. O. WilsonEach of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it … ▶363Humanity
E. O. WilsonThe worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governmen… ▶352PoliticsReadingTruth
E. O. WilsonAn Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage … ▶353Humanity
E. O. WilsonThe time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. What is happening to the rain fore… ▶364HumanityTime
E. O. WilsonIn a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great w… ▶342Sadness
E. O. WilsonGo as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly.364Truth
E. O. WilsonThe 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 plan… ▶353Humor
E. O. WilsonThe human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere. ✨ My wish: Build the Encyclopedia of Life. TED Talks, www.ted.com. March, 2007.331HumanityLife
E. O. WilsonIt'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. ✨ Interview with Bill Moyers, ww… ▶331Life
E. O. WilsonJehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.364Life
E. O. WilsonTo be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term g… ▶321HumanityPhilosophy
E. O. WilsonIn my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.321Love
E. O. WilsonIn many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. ✨ An Interview With E.O. Wilson, the Father of the Encyclopedia… ▶343LifeTime
E. O. WilsonThe love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science. ✨ E. O. Wilson (2014). Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, p.… ▶354Love
E. O. WilsonNow when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds fluttering around in the canopy. You are drastically imper… ▶344Reading
E. O. WilsonThe growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity.366HumanityLife
E. O. WilsonI had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind. ✨ EO Wilson: Our … ▶366ReadingThought
E. O. WilsonSo in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of … ▶322Reading
E. O. WilsonBiophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.311HumanityLife
E. O. WilsonTrue character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, … ▶344HumanityReadingTruth
E. O. WilsonIf religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all be… ▶367HopeHumanityTime
E. O. WilsonThe great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.367HumanityLife
E. O. WilsonI like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, When all else fails, men turn to reason. ✨ Bill Moyers talks with E.O. Wilson. Bill Moyers Journal, www.pbs.org… ▶367Reflection
E. O. WilsonThe education of women is the best way to save the environment. ✨ Darwin's natural heir by Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2001.334Hope
E. O. WilsonToday [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative, as a brief for postmodernism. The adva… ▶368HumanityReading
E. O. WilsonWe are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to explain ourselves in these mechanistic ter… ▶324Humor
