Quotes
Edward O. Wilson
Biologist, Ecologist, Entomologist, Author
From Biophilia
The natural world is the refuge of the spirit, remote, static, richer even than human imagination.
Splendour awaits in minute proportions.
To explore and affiliate with life is a deep and complicated process in mental development. To an extent still undervalued in philosophy and religion, our existence depends on this propensity, our spirit is woven from it hope rises on its currents.
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From Biodiversity
​The diversity of life forms, so numerous that we have yet to identify most of them, is the greatest wonder of this planet.
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From The Diversity of Life
Into wilderness people travel in search of new life and wonder… Wilderness settles peace on the soul because it needs no help; it is beyond human contrivance.
Stephen R. Kellert
Social Ecologist, Author​
From Birthright: People and Nature in the Modern World
We will never be truly healthy, satisfied, or fulfilled if we live apart and alienated from the environment from which we evolved.
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Nature remains our magic well: the more we draw from its nourishing waters, the more we sustain the human body, mind and spirit.
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If we stray too far from our inherited dependence on the natural world, we do so at our own peril.
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The wondrous diverse beauty of the natural world remains the source of who we are and can become as individuals and societies.
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From Nature by Design: The Practice of Biophilic Design
One of the great challenges of our time is to bring the beneficial experience of nature into the design of contemporary buildings, landscapes, communities, and cities.
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David Attenborough
Biologist, Natural Historian, Broadcaster, Author
From the introduction of Bjork's Biophilia App
Welcome to biophilia, the love for nature in all her manifestations, from the tiniest organism to the greatest red giant floating in the farthest realm of the universe. With biophilia comes a restless curiosity, an urge to investigate and discover the elusive places where we meet nature, where she plays on our senses with colours and forms, perfumes and smells.
Walter Truett Anderson
Political Scientist, Social Psychologist, Author
From We The Planet
‘…can we also expand, or at any rate nourish, our capacity for wonder? And our capacity for love – create a biophilia commensurate to our power over the rest of life on Earth? I think we can. I also think we had damn well better.’
