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“The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.”

E. O. Wilson · Work

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E. O. Wilson

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

Environmental

E. O. Wilson

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

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I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

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E. O. Wilson

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

Science