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Overview
View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"
Synopsis
View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"
Hiram Caton - Times Literary Supplement
E. O. Wilson is the entomologist Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. His science writing for the general public has won him the Pulitzer Prize and his scientific publications have won him the highest honors American science can bestow. He is well equipped to engage a subject dear to nature-lovers which until now has not been identified as a species trait--biophilia. The freshness of Wilson's approach lies in its freedom from the obsessions of the environmentalist movement...While he shares the conservationist ethic of environmentalists, and seeks to impart its practical imperatives, he eschews cultism...Let this highly readable book then be commended to all biophiliacs and technocrats.
Editorials
Natural History
A fine memoir by one of America's foremost evolutionary biologists...erudite, elegant, and poetic
New York Times
There's more to this unbuttoned and intellectually playful book than its plea for a conservation of ethic and the preservation of animal species in all their diversity. We get, for example, several autobiographical glimpses into the background of Professor Wilson...We see Professor Wilson as a boy growing up in the Florida panhandle...Elsewhere he astonishes us with a description of the mating dance of the male Emperor of Germany bird of paradise, and the degree of genetic congruity between pygmy chimpanzees and Homo Sapiens.
— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Times Literary Supplement
E. O. Wilson is the entomologist Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. His science writing for the general public has won him the Pulitzer Prize and his scientific publications have won him the highest honors American science can bestow. He is well equipped to engage a subject dear to nature-lovers which until now has not been identified as a species trait—biophilia. The freshness of Wilson's approach lies in its freedom from the obsessions of the environmentalist movement...While he shares the conservationist ethic of environmentalists, and seeks to impart its practical imperatives, he eschews cultism...Let this highly readable book then be commended to all biophiliacs and technocrats.
— Hiram Caton
Los Angeles Times
Wilson's own empathy with things illuminates these essays with fresh perceptions of everyday matters...They are masterpieces of prose style.
Washington Post Book World
Biophilia is an immensely readable book. Wilson is a master storyteller, skillful at evoking exotic scenes.
New York Times
There's more to this unbuttoned and intellectually playful book than its plea for a conservation of ethic and the preservation of animal species in all their diversity. We get, for example, several autobiographical glimpses into the background of Professor Wilson...We see Professor Wilson as a boy growing up in the Florida panhandle...Elsewhere he astonishes us with a description of the mating dance of the male Emperor of Germany bird of paradise, and the degree of genetic congruity between pygmy chimpanzees and Homo Sapiens.— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Los Angeles Times
Wilson's own empathy with things illuminates these essays with fresh perceptions of everyday matters...They are masterpieces of prose style.Natural History
A fine memoir by one of America's foremost evolutionary biologists...erudite, elegant, and poeticTimes Literary Supplement
E. O. Wilson is the entomologist Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. His science writing for the general public has won him the Pulitzer Prize and his scientific publications have won him the highest honors American science can bestow. He is well equipped to engage a subject dear to nature-lovers which until now has not been identified as a species trait--biophilia. The freshness of Wilson's approach lies in its freedom from the obsessions of the environmentalist movement...While he shares the conservationist ethic of environmentalists, and seeks to impart its practical imperatives, he eschews cultism...Let this highly readable book then be commended to all biophiliacs and technocrats.— Hiram Caton
Washington Post Book World
Biophilia is an immensely readable book. Wilson is a master storyteller, skillful at evoking exotic scenes.John Wilkes
Although [these essays] are masterpieces of prose style, they more effectively illustrate Wilson's own biophilia than his contention that biophilia exists as a general human trait.—The Los Angeles Times