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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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We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall…
— Unknown Author
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Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We…
— Joyce Brothers
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On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we…
— Albert Einstein
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In theory we understand people, but in practice we can't put up with them, I thought, deal with them for the most…
— Thomas Bernhard
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What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein…
— John Yau
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Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those…
— Hilaire Belloc
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As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous…
— Richard Dooling
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We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering…
— Daniel Kahneman
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If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
— Francois Fenelon
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I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others,…
— E. O. Wilson
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What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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A study at the University of Utah found that if you ask someone why he is friendly with someone else, he’ll say…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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