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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 don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge…
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I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's…
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He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture,…
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Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that seems to have led me…
— Nat Wolff
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I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were…
— Art Spiegelman
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I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes…
— Emily Gould
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The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and…
— Sunita Narain
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There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
— Edward Abbey
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As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the…
— Sally Mann
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A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think…
— Unknown Author
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Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the…
— Daniel Gilbert
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