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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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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens…
— Charles de Gaulle
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Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
— Carl Sandburg
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It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
— Helen Walton
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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
— Nido R Qubein
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Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then…
— Bruce Jenner
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The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,…
— E. O. Wilson
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Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
— Franz Kafka
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... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another,…
— Davis McCaughey
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Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the…
— Nicky Gumbel
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Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future, that only…
— Peter van Inwagen
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A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer…
— Henry Wriston
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