1,070 Quotes by E. O. Wilson

The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry

It was sickening. It's just devastating to us. There's a tremendous amount of work that goes into these fish. To have this happen a week prior to releasing them hurts real hard.

I don't know, ... They'll have to show me. We've got a lot of good players and I want to see what they do in the second half.

We?re in contact with three national movie chains. One of our goals is to put a movie theater on the eastern side of the property. It?s a high priority goal.

The larger the pie, the greater number of possible slices big enough to sustain the lives of individual species.

The harder you try to hold onto them, the easier it is for some gal to pull them away.

It goes both ways. They know if they throw it in, we're not black holes. It will come back out.

The soldiers thing, I think the Italians picked it up first. I've done interviews with the Italians, the French, Amsterdam. ... They were very critical, saying the US wouldn't pick it up, because it's such a sore spot. ... It raises too many ethical questions. ... I started to laugh, because it's true.

We don't have open and honest discussions about the sexuality in our communities, and what we get out of that is people being unable to claim the truth of their lives.