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 intellig…

- E. O. Wilson

If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answe…

- E. O. Wilson

Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the pr…

- E. O. Wilson

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right in…

- E. O. Wilson

People must belong to a tribe; they yearn to have a purpose larger than themselves. We are obligated by the deepest drives of the human spirit to mak…

- E. O. Wilson

There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

- E. O. Wilson

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

- E. O. Wilson

People would rather believe than know.

- E. O. Wilson

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects we…

- E. O. Wilson