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All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with…

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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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I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off… — Howard Stern
There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't… — Gordon W. Allport
Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise. — Lord Byron
I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless… — Muriel Barbery
I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree. — A.C. Grayling
I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a… — Conrad Veidt
I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the… — Edward Abbey
People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm… — Mike Tyson
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. — Mary Wortley Montagu
F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I… — Steven Pressfield
I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to… — Tim Cook

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