E. O. Wilson Quotes

United States, Biologist
June 10, 1929 – December, 26, 2021.

Edward Osborne Wilson, usually cited as E. O. Wilson, was an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he has been called the world's leading expert. Wilson has been called "the father of sociobiology" and "the father of biodiversity", his environmental advocacy, and his secular-humanist and deist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters.

Also known as Researcher, Naturalist, Author, Naturalist, University Teacher

We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.

E. O. Wilson
- World
- Freedom
That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.

E. O. Wilson
- American
- Environment

I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them.

E. O. Wilson
- People
- Thinking
- Trying
If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.

E. O. Wilson
- World