Best quotes by E. O. Wilson on World

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ It'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.

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• ‟ The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

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• ‟ America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

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