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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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That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much…
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Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a…
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At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as…
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I smell fear, he said with a quiet intensity. But not nearly enough.
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I love the military. They don’t get nearly enough credit for all the hard work they do to protect us, keep us…
— Ric Flair
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We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly…
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Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things…
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I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.
— Meg Rosoff
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Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I…
— Cassandra Clare
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Now I am short on some props, and there isn't nearly enough time in one night to run through all the ways…
— Jeaniene Frost
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It wasn't enough, not nearly enough, but it was all there was.
— Cassandra Clare
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