Edward Wilson Quotes on Life (3 Quotes)

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

I saw it as a splendid opportunity to trace his intellectual development, starting with the voyage aboard the Beagle, ... He hit upon natural selection at a fairly early stage and his life was really one long argument about the questions it raised.

Human beings live -- literally live, as if life is equated with the mind -- by symbols, particularly words, because the brain is constructed to process information almost exclusively in their terms.