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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 am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat…
— Jean Cocteau
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In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power,…
— Mary Robinson
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But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.
— Robin Williams
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It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for…
— Nelson Mandela
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Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or…
— Benedetto Croce
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No nation is truly free until the animal, man's younger brother is free and happy.
— Unknown Author
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Only the person who risks is truly free
— William Arthur Ward
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Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look…
— E. O. Wilson
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In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if…
— Adyashanti
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Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is…
— George Berkeley
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No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself…
— Frederick Douglass
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