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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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.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.
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But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their…
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An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of…
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The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that…
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The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and…
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A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant…
— Mark Twain
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In the arms of the angel, fly away from here....you are pulled from the wreckage, of your silent reverie, you're in the…
— Sarah McLachlan
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There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one…
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Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage,…
— Mary Ruefle
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What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage…
— Margaret Mitchell
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In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some harm us,…
— David Richo
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I wonder what my father saw in his most secret sight of the right life. It's my guess he wanted to live…
— William Kittredge
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