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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
— Aristotle
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I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something…
— James Cameron
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The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed.…
— C.S. Lewis
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I believe that at every level of society the key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not…
— Dalai Lama
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The philosophical underpinnings of my approach to acting are that there are universal human qualities, and that every character is actually available…
— Misha Collins
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People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.
— Rob Reiner
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You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably…
— Jean Harris
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To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities.
— Fred Hollows
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Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can.…
— Dalai Lama
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What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The…
— John Cowper Powys
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The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination…
— Howard Zinn
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Social grace, inner discipline and joy. These are the birthright of the human being who has been allowed to develop essential human…
— Maria Montessori
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