"One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period."

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E. O. Wilson

#Growing Up Quotes #Bugs Quotes #Periods Quotes

“If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.”
“God help me, I'm just not that bright.”
“One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.”
“When less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further. The alternative is for the audience to be presented with a final deduction (...) no effort on their part. What can it mean to them when they have not shared with the author the misery and joy of bringing an image into being?”
“Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.”
“But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.”
“Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.”
“Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.”

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