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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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Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
— E. O. Wilson
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The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according…
— John Cage
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We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the…
— Hans Arp
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At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more…
— Samuel Hahnemann
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Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Color was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express…
— Henri Matisse
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Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try…
— Pablo Picasso
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Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it up.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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