A Window on Eternity Quotes

“Nature is the birthright of everyone on Earth. The millions of species we have allowed to survive are our phylogenetic kin. Their long-term history is our long-term history. Despite all our fantasies and pretensions, we always have been and will remain a biological species tied to this particular biological world.”
― Edward O. Wilson, A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park

“I believe that the ten billion people expected to be present at the end of the century will enjoy a far better quality of life if we conserve half of the planet for nature than if we consume nature entirely.”
― Edward O. Wilson, A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park

“While our species continues to manufacture its radically different and untested all-human world, the rest of life should be allowed to endure, for our own safety. While preserving our own deep history, it will, if we choose to let it, continue on its own trajectory through evolutionary time. By thus maintaining two parallel worlds on the planet, humanity will ensure the survival and continued advanced of the rest of life, and of ourselves.”
― Edward O. Wilson, A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park