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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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You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human…
— Kofi Annan
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Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development.
— Harry Belafonte
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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,…
— E. O. Wilson
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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development
— William Arthur Ward
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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.
— Charles Kettering
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It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive…
— Paul Feyerabend
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While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can…
— Erich Fromm
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The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it…
— Adolf Hitler
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Today it takes no great stretch of the imagination to envisage the earth as an interconnected globe humming with electronic transmissions -…
— John Foley
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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
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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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