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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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There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations.
— Unknown Author
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All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as…
— Carl Sagan
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Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire…
— Hugh Nibley
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In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.
— Erwin Schrodinger
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The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and…
— E. O. Wilson
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It is curious to observe what different ideals of happiness people cherish, and in what singular places they look for this well-spring…
— Helen Keller
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My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees,…
— Tupac Shakur
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My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.
— Tupac Shakur
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Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the…
— C.S. Lewis
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for…
— Bertrand Russell
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Dee's search for knowledge was always his greatest strength... and his weakness.
— Michael Scott
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The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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