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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, you have not…

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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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You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human… — Kofi Annan
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development. — Harry Belafonte
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,… — E. O. Wilson
Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development — William Arthur Ward
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new. — Charles Kettering
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive… — Paul Feyerabend
While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can… — Erich Fromm
The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it… — Adolf Hitler
Today it takes no great stretch of the imagination to envisage the earth as an interconnected globe humming with electronic transmissions -… — John Foley
The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
The Earth is indeed a precious gift of the Creator who, in designing its intrinsic order, has given us bearings that guide… — Pope Benedict XVI

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