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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'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
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By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its…
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Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden…
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But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of…
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When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms…
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As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it…
— Sri Aurobindo
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The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them.…
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who…
— Origen
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Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
— Joseph Heller
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There must be something wrong with my eyes, I can't take them off you. You are so fine, I wish I could…
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It is important to understand from the very beginning that I am not formulating any philosophy or any theological structure of ideas…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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