In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes ant collapse ecosystem
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. E. O. Wilson aestheticcognitivehold Change image and share on social
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. E. O. Wilson biologyevolvegod Change image and share on social
Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass. E. O. Wilson funeralhighhumanist Change image and share on social
When you get up into the crown of a redwood tree, you lose sight of the ground entirely. You also lose sight of the sky. And you're in a lost world. You're in an undiscovered, unexplored ecosystem, somewhere between Heaven and Earth, filled with forms of life, not all of which have been given names by scientists yet. Richard Preston crownearthecosystem share on social
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. Lewis Thomas antbeastbegin share on social
When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things. John Rhys-Davies bitecelebratecollapse Change image and share on social