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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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If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no…
— Jacque Fresco
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African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is…
— Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
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If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion…
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We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.
— Jeremy Grantham
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"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant,…
— Abraham Cowley
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When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,…
— Salman Rushdie
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Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it.…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and…
— F. Sionil Jose
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Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than…
— Tristram Stuart
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There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
— Josiah Strong
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Five generations of back ache, wrinkles and empty penny jars.. why do we do it?! Dur its farming, simply loving life and…
— Laura Claxton
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