E O Wilson Biophilia Quotes

#1. Ever since I was a child I have been a strong believer in the principle that to under-stand how anything works you need to take it apart and look at it in detail. This principle that worked with toys also works pretty well with search.

David Amerland

#2. My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills ... So my parents always struggled.

Patti Smith

#3. They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

Edward O. Wilson

#4. Conversely, the biophilia hypothesis, as Wilson calls it, also explains why we find natural settings so peaceful. It's in our genes. That's why, each year, more people visit zoos than attend all sporting events combined.

Eric Weiner

#5. Wilson defines biophilia as the urge to affiliate with other forms of life.

Richard Louv

#6. You've got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It's when somebody steps on the bride's train, or belches during the ceremony that you've got comedy!

Phyllis Diller

#7. Well, I had a fiddle that I really can't play, so I loaned it to Darrell. But yeah, he's from another planet.

Guy Clark

#8. When the number of children goes over one, God becomes miserly in granting intelligence; he takes it from the living child and gives it to the child to be born.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.

E. O. Wilson

#10. Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Jalal Talabani

#11. Who are you?
Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?
Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?
I have. I am fucking crazy.
But I am free.

Lana Del Rey

#12. The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.

Dan Simmons

#13. Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#14. Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.

E. O. Wilson