E. O. Wilson Quotes

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.

Whether that expansion is towards the beings around you or flora, fauna, and creatures. Love has so many unique yet consistent forms. People like Branson - he's an idea guru. Guys like Allan Savory - he's like Father Earth. Allan has literally discovered how to stop desertification and make Africa come alive with plant life. In each of its forms, love has an infinite scope of potential expansion, all of which I see leading to growth.

Support renewable energy. Recycle. Reuse. Restore. Replenish.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Nature does require her times of preservation.

In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.

Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.

Nature abhors annihilation.

It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth.

Nature has a way of giving back. And we can never go against it.

The planet's forests are essential for life.

I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing?

If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.

We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.

Nature is actually resilient, if we take care to just stop actively destroying it.

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

My travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology. They are not really different, except that there is an added dimension of seeing ecological destruction and seeing the very life-support system that makes us survive on this planet being destroyed. That makes me do more than just inquire; it compels me to act and to intervene.

A functioning eco-system is a human need.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.