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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 really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think…
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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to…
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I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that…
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My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.
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Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.
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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else…
— Anton Chekhov
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A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
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I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as…
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On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand,…
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I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.
— Tori Amos
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I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of…
— John Stamos
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