Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.
E. O. WilsonIn a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.
E. O. WilsonI doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
E. O. WilsonHumanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.
E. O. Wilson