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We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness,…

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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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If I go and try to watch a movie by myself I'll be completely transfixed the whole time, concentrating one hundred percent.… — Robert Pattinson
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. — Alan Lightman
The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's… — Frank Lentricchia
Once after Barefoot In the Park had been playing for about a week I went back to see it, watching the audience,… — Simon Neil
We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because… — E. O. Wilson
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as… — Ernest Becker
I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed. — Amber Heard
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is… — Lewis Thomas
I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or… — Patrick Rothfuss
We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only… — Leonora Carrington
He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens. — Jonathan Stroud
I am in love with you', I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. 'Of course you are,' he replied.… — Anne Rice

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