Half-Earth Quotes

“The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.”
― Edward O. Wilson, Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

“Despite all of our pretenses and fantasies, we always have been and will remain a biological species tied to this particular biological world. Millions of years of evolution are indelibly encoded in our genes. History without the wildlands is no history at all.”
― Edward O. Wilson, Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

“What is man? Storyteller, mythmaker, and destroyer of the living world. Thinking”
― Edward O. Wilson, Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

“The International Energy Agency insists that somehow humanity must plan to leave most of the world’s proven oil and gas reserves in the ground to blunt otherwise ruinous climate change, adding that “no more than one-third of proven reserves of fossil fuels can be consumed prior to 2050.”
― Edward O. Wilson, Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

“In Hebei Province, in the heart of China’s northern grain belt, the average water level in the deep aquifer is dropping nearly three meters a year. Underground”
― Edward O. Wilson, Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

“The agent causing the most immediate damage to species in fresh water are dams, great boosters of local economies but unfortunately chief demons of aquatic habitat destruction. Their”
― Edward O. Wilson, Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life