If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

Edward Osborne Wilson (1929 CE-2021 CE), Edward Osborne Wilson was an American biologist, naturalist, and writer. His specialty was myrmecology, the study of ants. Wilson has been called "the father of sociobiology" and "the father of biodiversity"for his environmental advocacy, and his secular-humanist and deist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters.