#world

I know it's not the most important thing for me to win the most Grand Slams and be remembered in this world. I certainly don't have to win little tournaments here, there and everywhere, I don't have to win at all. Although I do want to. ↗

— Venus Williams

#certainly #everywhere #grand #grand slams #here

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#background #because #characters #easier #generally

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me. ↗

— Henry Williamson

#could #experience #greatest #greatest city #me

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ants #barrier #becoming #dominated #evolving

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#enough #i #love #most #natural

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

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#been #dream #exploring #finding #living

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#constant #distorted #immediate #input #map

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#back #being #forth #noisy #passed

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cemetery #dominant #insects #make #make up