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The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the…
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Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
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Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
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Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of…
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Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.
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Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth…
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No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure…
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The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological…
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The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion…
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Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
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The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,…
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[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to…
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It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals…
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These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly…
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Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without…
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I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.
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Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
— John Ruskin
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I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live…
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My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me.…
— Betty White
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Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or…
— Chris Bohjalian
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I think that now that we are seeing multimedia types of productions with videos and pictures and human beings performing the acts…
— Montel Williams
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