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It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the…

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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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When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family.… — John Fogerty
In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden… — Thomas Guthrie
The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of… — Pearl S. Buck
The truth is that we are saved by grace only after all we ourselves can do. (See 2 Ne. 25:23.) There will… — Marion G. Romney
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates… — P.J. O'Rourke
If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? — James Lipton
I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that — Curtis Jackson
If you go through the pearly gates backwards in a fireball, that's a cool way to die! — Jeremy Clarkson
Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so… — William Morris Hunt
Outside, a ceiling of pearly gray clouds coalesced over Manhattan, and the apartment had grown dark. It just keeps dripping. It's been… — Joan Didion
Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the… — Madison Cawein
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered… — William Shatner

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