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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 knowledge, alluding to…

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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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Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of… — E. O. Wilson
When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them… — Sri Chinmoy
If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what… — Unknown Author
Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around.… — William P. Young
Telling the truth is like exposing the underside of our wings. We only see that part when we fly. — Sabrina Ward Harrison
One hundred years from now, I expect the Tatas to be much bigger than it is now. More importantly, I hope the… — Ratan Tata
Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven… — Mitchell Burgess
It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is… — John D. Caputo
We have to earn our Wings every day. — Frank Borman
No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift… — Roy Lessin
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. — Rumi

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