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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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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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He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
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From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is…
— Carl Jung
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Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a…
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The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue,…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man…
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That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet…
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Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.
— Carl Jung
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If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and…
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