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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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Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct.…
— P.D. James
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We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's…
— Denis Hayes
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Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many…
— Robert T. Bakker
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The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the…
— E. O. Wilson
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We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward…
— Grant Morrison
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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an…
— Cameron Russell
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The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but…
— James Howard Kunstler
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The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines,…
— Rebecca Solnit
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