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Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds…

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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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Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body. — Wassily Kandinsky
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and… — E. O. Wilson
In addition to declaring and destroying all of its weapons of mass destruction, Iraq must end its support for terrorism. It must… — George W. Bush
The work comes into the world at an undetermined hour, from a still unknown, but it comes inevitably. — Giacomo Puccini
How could I say that I wished to penetrate the secrets of the mountains in search of something still unknown that, like… — Peter Matthiessen
When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed… — William Beebe
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown. — Katherine Dunn
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. — Francis Bacon
My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life. — Carl Jung
When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life… — Douglas Coupland
My husband came up to Hot Rocks to check up on me, why is still unknown to me because if I was… — Kim Mathers
Patience is the art of mental stamina and I always wished to meet you in person, Yet I waited in all the… — Nkululeko Goqo

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