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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 female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.
— Simon Baron-Cohen
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This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free…
— David Foster Wallace
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Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool. ... Brand affinity is clearly hard wired.…
— Eric Schmidt
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Curiosity’s primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can…
— Julie Czerneda
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The Charge will change your life. Our brains are hard wired to meet specific human drives, and learning to harness and activate…
— Daniel Amen
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I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
— Nick Cave
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We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there,…
— Stephen King
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
— E. O. Wilson
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Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry…
— Peter Watts
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It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.
— George C. Marshall
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Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for…
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Hard-wired to conceive, so much we'd have to stow it. Even needs have needs, tiny giants made of tinier giants
— Modest Mouse
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