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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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To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he…
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It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.
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There's little to see, but things leave an impression. It's a matter of time and repetition. As something old wears thin or…
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Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all -…
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I believe in truths, but I don't believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as…
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Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are…
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I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in…
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Some information has to remain in the privy of the office of the Prime Minister and the ministers for the proper administration…
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Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every…
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