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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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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender…
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It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm…
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Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the…
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All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot…
— Sherman Alexie
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When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.
— Michael Shermer
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Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.
— Tom Arnold
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I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer,…
— Kristin Kreuk
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They sense that there's a majority out there and that the emotions are all on the other side-if they can be heard.…
— Louis O. Kelso
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a…
— Ansel Adams
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As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in…
— Paul Watson
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Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when…
— Gary Bauer
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