If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

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• E. O. Wilson:

  The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

• E. O. Wilson:

  The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the r

• E. O. Wilson:

  Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

• E. O. Wilson:

  Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.

• E. O. Wilson:

  Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not p

• E. O. Wilson:

  It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and

• E. O. Wilson:

  Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin,

• E. O. Wilson:

  We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It'

• E. O. Wilson:

  I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans jus

• E. O. Wilson:

  For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organizat