Top Microcosms Quotes

A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.

A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.

Edward O. Wilson

Tags: biodiversity, biology, microcosms, natural history

Girls say to me, very reasonably, 'why isn't it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bunch of boys?' Well, my reply is I was once a little boy - I have been a brother, a father, I am going...

Girls say to me, very reasonably, 'why isn't it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bunch of boys?' Well, my reply is I was once a little boy - I have been a brother, a father, I am going...

William Golding

Tags: children, civilisation, equality, life experience, lord of the flies, men, microcosms, sex, society, women