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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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Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
— Bill Moyers
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Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.
— Warren Buffett
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Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted…
— E. O. Wilson
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Unless we are prepared to search our souls to discover what to say, and then how to say it effectively, we cannot…
— Unknown Author
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If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to…
— Ayn Rand
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Every human being should show the greatest interest in beekeeping because our lives depend upon it.
— Rudolf Steiner
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse…
— Henry Adams
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Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath…
— Ayelet Waldman
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Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.…
— Oscar Wilde
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Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.
— Li Keqiang
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