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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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When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.
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Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they…
— Abram Hoffer
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May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant
— Leonard Nimoy
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and…
— Alan Lightman
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Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar…
— Peter Lynch
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
— E. O. Wilson
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In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of…
— Paul Johnson
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England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is…
— Wole Soyinka
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The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic…
— Richard LaGravenese
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