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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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They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were…
— Steven Weinberg
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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
— Eugenio Montale
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Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon…
— Carl Sagan
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Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations…
— Richard Dawkins
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[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.
— Steven Weinberg
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It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our…
— William J. Brennan
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I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country…
— Mary Robinson
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Don't repress your needs and feelings. They fester, becoming corrosive and destructive in your relationships. In a calm, loving way, tell the…
— Jillian Michaels
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Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.
— William Shakespeare
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Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater,…
— Simon Mawer
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I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to…
— Steven Weinberg
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"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce…
— Charles Bernhard Heyd
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