14 Quotes by Edward Wilson

For every person in the world to reach the present U.S. level of consumption with existing technology would require four more planet earths.

I am an optimist by nature. But I have to admit, it's getting kind of scary.

Human activity equals a decline of the rest of life on earth,

Human beings live -- literally live, as if life is equated with the mind -- by symbols, particularly words, because the brain is constructed to process information almost exclusively in their terms.

Colonies with lower relatedness among the workers often have higher growth and reproduction rates than those with higher relatedness,