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You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.
E. O. Wilson
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E. O. Wilson
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: June 10
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There are millions and millions of species, including organisms most people have never heard of. There is so much that waits to be told. We don't know the functions of most of them, but they may be more vital for the planet's future sustainability than we can even dream. And we have to find out we need to be doing this sort of study.
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Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
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People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.
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The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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If someone could actually prove scientifically that there is such a thing as a supernatural force, it would be one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science. So the notion that somehow scientists are resisting it is ludicrous.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
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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.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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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.
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Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
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The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.
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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.
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