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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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