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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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The NBA is the strongest professional sports league in the world. The league and the game is bigger than any one person,…
— Michael Jordan
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In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the…
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For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to…
— Franz Liszt
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FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans.
— Valerie Jarrett
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The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the…
— Ken Wilber
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Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more.…
— Tom Rachman
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There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary,…
— H. L. Mencken
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding…
— Patricia Briggs
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I always think everything is going to last forever, but nothing ever does. In fact nothing exists longer than an instant except…
— Sam Savage
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For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of…
— Charles Yu
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Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are…
— Marilynne Robinson
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