“The education of women is the best way to save the environment.”
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Famous E. O. Wilson Quotes
“When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.”
“Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.”
“The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.”
Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.”
“Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.”
“Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.”
“True character arises from a deeper well than religion.”
Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.”
“I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.”
“I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.”
“Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.”
“In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.”
“It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.”
“One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.”
“The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.”
“The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.”
“The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.”
“There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.”