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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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If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or,…
— Ann Radcliffe
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Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted…
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For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer…
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Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)
— Henry Royce
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Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
— Max Ehrmann
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O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is…
— Ann Radcliffe
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
— Washington Irving
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Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and…
— Joshua Chamberlain
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No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and…
— Unknown Author
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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you…
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