E. O. Wilson Quotes About Creation
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Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named.
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I want us to save the creation-not just care about it, but to save it.
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Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
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The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away. The way back seems harder every year. If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding, through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. And thus humanity closes the door on its past.
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'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
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In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.
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