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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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Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending…
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Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of…
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But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and…
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I love putting the music together. It's like art
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The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is…
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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
— Gregory Bateson
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I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic…
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The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.
— Laura Miller
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Music, and art for that matter, to me is not about true meaning to anyone else but yourself. If I told you…
— John O'Callaghan
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Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of…
— Otto Penzler
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Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
— Charles de Lint
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Is love like art - something always ahead, never quite attained.
— Edward Weston
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