E.O. Wilson in his office at Harvard.Bob O’Connor for The Wall Street Journal
In the hallways of his retirement home in Lexington, Mass. — an upscale community where paintings by Matisse and Manet hang on the wall and former college presidents mill around, drinking coffee from paper cups — E.O. Wilson is a popular figure. He is the country’s most celebrated naturalist. In the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., his portrait hangs next to Michelle Obama’s. “I joked to a friend,” he says, “that she deserves the honor.”
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