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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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There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by…
— Deepak Chopra
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Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world…
— Michael Caine
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When someone tells you, 'I love you,' and then you feel, 'Oh, I must be worthy after all,' that's an illusion. That's…
— Adyashanti
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World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and…
— Dan Barker
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When media make war against each other, it is a case of world- views in collision.
— Neil Postman
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In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side…
— Dalai Lama
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The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way…
— E. O. Wilson
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If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and…
— Sam Harris
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World views are self views....literally.
— Aroha Janet
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In a world of politics, corrupt societies, crooked law enforcement, and fraud friends, you gotta be a little crazy to survive? Right?
— Maher Hammad
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