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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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The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every…
— Lloyd deMause
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It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of…
— Pope Pius X
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Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Loss provides an opportunity to take inventory of our lives, to reconsider priorities, and to determine new directions.
— Gerald Lawson Sittser
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Being an entrepreneur isn’t just a job title, and it isn’t just about starting a company. It’s a state of mind. It’s…
— Tory Burch
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
— Adolf Loos
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It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when…
— David Allen
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To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in…
— Marty Neumeier
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I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an…
— Alan Perlis
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New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution…
— Freeman Dyson
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Before you can move in new directions, you must first let go of what's not working for you.
— Alberto Villoldo
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I'm always asking questions - not to find 'answers,' but to see where the questions lead. Dead ends sometimes? That's fine. New…
— Lesley Hazleton
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