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Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our…

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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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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race,… — John Calvin
O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who… — Brigit of Kildare
... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation. — Thomas Adams
Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are… — Winston Churchill
Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine,… — William Temple
PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The… — Ambrose Bierce
I dont believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian. — Shelley Long
Women have a predestination to suffering. — Bela Lugosi
Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not… — E. O. Wilson
It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to… — Jacques Ellul
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to… — John Calvin

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