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An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in…

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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…
Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of…
Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth…
No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure…
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological…
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion…
Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,…
[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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An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of… — E. O. Wilson

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