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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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Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge.…
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One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means…
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A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their…
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One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.
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I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness…
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Having a family that loves books and loves to read has always created a common ground for communication.
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It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the…
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Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists…
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