“When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.”
-E. O. Wilson



“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.”
-E. O. Wilson



“There is no better high than discovery.”
-E. O. Wilson



“Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound,
but because it is wrong”
-E. O. Wilson



“Each species is a masterpiece,
a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.”
-E. O. Wilson



"The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.”
-E. O. Wilson



“Earth is a little-known planet. We have little appreciation for what we're doing. ... We are flying blind.”
-E. O. Wilson