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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

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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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In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. — Stephen Greenblatt
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the… — Hannah Arendt
Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so… — Unknown Author
There is nothing more beautiful in the world, enough to lose one's head. A sunset with a long nose, a starry sky… — Roberto Benigni
God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives. — Ann Voskamp
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on… — Augustus Hare
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do;… — William Hazlitt
Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime. — Andrew Marvell
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. — E. O. Wilson
Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Love you..." Henry-" Always..." Oh God oh God-" World enough..." No!" And time..." Henry! — Audrey Niffenegger
There's always world enough and time. — Audrey Niffenegger

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