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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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If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of…
— Mortimer Adler
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There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
— Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
— Herb Caen
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Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that…
— Mary Lou Retton
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
— Alfred Nobel
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People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep…
— Al-Ghazali
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Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
— Denis Waitley
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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's…
— George Eliot
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Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on…
— Hugh Laurie
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However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be…
— St. Vincent
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One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
— George Eliot
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This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
— Henry David Thoreau
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