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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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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced…
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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders…
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
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Don't try to guess what sort of thing editors want to publish or what you think the country is in a mood…
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I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
— Unknown Author
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For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It…
— Walter Lippmann
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I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.
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It [fiction] allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a…
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I don't care. I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that. Some actors actually think about what…
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Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the…
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