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Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it…

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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…
Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of…
Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth…
No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure…
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological…
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion…
Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,…
[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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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art… — William Blake
Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be… — Swami Vivekananda
You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close… — Frederick Douglass
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the… — William Blake
We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children. — Dennis Kucinich
A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. — Hugo Black
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human… — Isaiah Berlin
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy. — Barack Obama
Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart… — Josemaria Escriva
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain

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