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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 think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all…
— Richard Armitage
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
— Jimmy Carter
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I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with…
— Maya Angelou
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What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.
— William Inge
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[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by proving once…
— Alistair Cooke
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In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in…
— Clarence Darrow
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Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.
— Ernest L. Boyer
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Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.
— Boyd K. Packer
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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where…
— Eric Hoffer
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…
— Umberto Eco
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To awaken a new longing for holiness: this is the great pastoral challenge that we have before us, if we want to…
— Unknown Author
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Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and…
— Unknown Author
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