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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

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.


E. O. Wilson


#creatures #dead #dependent #land #leading

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.


E. O. Wilson


#badly #critical #environment #especially #had

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.


E. O. Wilson


#disappear #few #humanity #insects #land

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.


E. O. Wilson


#away #collapses #ecosystems #environments #land

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.


E. O. Wilson


#broad #circumstance #continents #flowering #forests

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.


E. O. Wilson


#century #challenges #economic #economic situation #improve

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.


E. O. Wilson


#exceed #exceeds #genes #life #likely

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.


E. O. Wilson


#exploring #field #get #into #kinds

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.


Earl Wilson


#air #down #down to earth #earth #else






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