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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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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to…
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The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings…
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Appreciating what shows up in your life changes your personal vibration. Gratitude elevates your life to a higher frequency.
— Oprah Winfrey
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History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
— Edmund Morris
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Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep…
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Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
— Frank Herbert
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Team spirit elevates with a broad-based contribution to the group effort. It's especially important for the high-performing leader to avoid the situation…
— Unknown Author
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It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science…
— Herbert Hoover
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It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening,…
— Tom DeLay
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The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a…
— Duane Elgin
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Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need…
— Georg Simmel
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