#la

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me. ↗

— Dennis Wilson

#brian #drums #even #guys #had

They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will. ↗

— Dennis Wilson

#either #fast #forever #give #i

Use plants to bring life. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#bring #life #plants #use

They don't know they're living in a glass house. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#house #know #living

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. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#behavior #choice #corrosive #economic #economic growth

Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#care #conquest #had #jehovah #loyalty

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#alabama #biologically #evolution #freshman #freshman year

We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#clear #earth #forests #living #most

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#burden #comes #cost #enormous #horrendous

Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ants #dominant #great #habitats #had