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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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Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is…
— Francis Bacon
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Rivers are inherently interesting. They mold landscapes, create fertile deltas, provide trade routes, a source for food and water; a place to…
— Unknown Author
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of…
— Francis Bacon
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander and even…
— George Perkins Marsh
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The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little…
— James Madison
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is…
— Francis Bacon
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