#par

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#instruments #parts #play #stage #stage play

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#aim high #alone #behave #best #capable

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#assumption #blind #blind faith #condition #every

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

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ideas #imagined #own #part #real

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

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#back #brings #car #family #nowadays

Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#may #parents #still #stress #today

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing. ↗

— Gretchen Wilson

#come #crowd #doing #dream #else