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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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While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I…
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In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough prophecies have…
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Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.
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Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There…
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From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge.…
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Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am.…
— Linus Pauling
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Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the…
— Lincoln Steffens
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My Lord Jesus Christ, who, for the love You bear to mankind, do remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us…
— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution.…
— Maya Angelou
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