Edward O. Wilson Quotes

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.

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.

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

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are