E. O. Wilson Quotes About Earth

• La humanidad es una especie biológica, que vive en un entorno biológico, porque como todas las especies, estamos exquisitamente adaptados en todo: desde nuestro comportamiento, a nuestra genética, a nuestra fisiología, a ese entorno concreto en el que vivimos. La Tierra es nuestro hogar. A menos que preservemos el resto de la vida, como un deber sagrado, nos estaremos poniendo en peligro a nosotros mismos al destruir el hogar en el que evolucionamos, y del que dependemos por completo.

  E. O. Wilson

  Hogar, Resto de la Vida, Humanidad

• We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

  E. O. Wilson

  Rain, Animal, Tree

• Conocida como la biosfera por los científicos y como la creación por los teólogos, toda la vida en su conjunto consiste en una membrana alrededor de la Tierra tan fina que no se puede ver desde un satélite, pero tan prodigiosamente diversa que sólo se ha descubierto y nombrado una pequeña fracción de especies.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Discovery, Diversity

• Las hormigas tienen la organización social más complicada de la Tierra, después de los humanos.

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  Organization, Earth, Next

• The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away. The way back seems harder every year. If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding, through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. And thus humanity closes the door on its past.

  E. O. Wilson

  Beautiful, Men, Past

• 'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

  E. O. Wilson

  Book, Diversity, Earth

  "Transcript of the complete E.O. Wilson interview". blog.cleveland.com. March 01, 2009.

• The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

  E. O. Wilson

  Earth, History Of Life, Surroundings

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

  E. O. Wilson

  Earth, Juggernaut, Ancient

  "My wish: Build the Encyclopedia of Life". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March, 2007.

• Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.

  E. O. Wilson

  Law, Environmental, Abnormal

• Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.

  E. O. Wilson

  Common Sense, Intuition, Earth

• Biology has finally opened up to achieve a unifying embrace of all its disciplines. We're seeing the renaissance of what could be called scientific natural history, which makes available the groundwork - the foundation work - of what is actually on the Earth.

  E. O. Wilson

  Discipline, Earth, Biology

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

• Most people are surprised when they hear my somber figures: we know of 2 million species of plants, animals and microorganisms, and we can give them each a scientific name and a diagnostic description. We know, perhaps generously, more than just a little bit of the anatomy in no more than 10 percent. We have done thorough studies in fewer than one-tenth of 1 percent. And the total number of species on Earth is unknown to the nearest order of magnitude.

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  Animal, People, Giving

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

• Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.

  E. O. Wilson

  Variation, Benefits, Earth

• We have to create a sustainable environment, worldwide, and we're not doing it. The best thing we can do with the rest of this century is aggressively acquire - and put aside - the richest natural reserves that we can, and then do our best to manage the needs and desires of the 11 billion people we expect to have by the end of the century. This is where biology is headed. For that reason, the sooner we get on with mapping biodiversity on Earth, the better off biology will be - not to mention the whole subject of saving it before we carelessly throw it away.

  E. O. Wilson

  People, Desire, Earth

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

• Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms.

  E. O. Wilson

  Motivación, Inspiración, Animal

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