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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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Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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If you are a member of the media, you belong to the public. You've made that Faustian bargain with your public. Take…
— Kenneth Anger
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A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed…
— Salman Rushdie
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I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I…
— Neko Case
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We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image…
— Jean Houston
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and…
— E. O. Wilson
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The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is…
— Seth Godin
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for…
— Ma Jian
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Its clear that what he offers its a faustian pact.you get a a McDonald's version of a career-its cheap and it wont…
— Unknown Author
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