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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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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Chins are exclusively a human feature, not to be found among the beasts. Ithey had chins, most animals would look like each…
— Malcolm De Chazal
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.
— David Ogilvy
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We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The business community wants remarkable advertising, but turns a cold shoulder to the kind of people who can produce it. That is…
— David Ogilvy
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Some beliefs may be subject to such instant, brutal and unambiguous rejection. For example: no left-coiling periwinkle has ever been found among…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.
— Robert Breault
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[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency…
— Jonathan Schell
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But it seems to me equally obvious that the orderliness is not all-pervasive. There are streaks of order to be found among…
— Arthur David Ritchie
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May the Lord be with us at all times, under all circumstances; may he bring into our lives a burning desire to…
— J. Reuben Clark
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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.
— John Milton
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