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“Belief creates biology.”

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Norman Cousins was an American journalist, author, and professor. He is renowned for his role as a journalist and his promotion of laughter as a therapeutic method. Born on June 24, 1915, Cousins passed away on November 30, 1990. more

“Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the roots of orchids, jaguars walked the river's edge; around them eight hundred species of trees stood, more than are native to all of North America; and a thousand species of butterflies, 6 percent of the entire world fauna, waited for the dawn.”

World America Tree Thousand Percent Hundred Rivers Roots Species Fruit Edges Eight Dawn Native Butterfly Crowns Bats Palms Flew Spears North America Biodiversity Orchids Ambush Vipers Jaguars

Author:E. O. Wilson

“We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.”

Humans Sweet Built Garden Greenhouses Biodiversity

Author:Bill McKibben

“People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.”

People Stills Balls Fishes Valuable Technique Destructive Fishing Biodiversity

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Man has created death.”

Men Biodiversity

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.”

Knows Has Beens Seems Wise Judgment Capacity Defined Biodiversity

Author:Jonas Salk

“I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.”

Achieve Dying Immortality Discworld Biodiversity Vetinari

Author:Woody Allen

“We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.”

People Use Principles Empowering Convince Conservation Biodiversity Guiding Principles

Author:Klaus Topfer

“Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.”

Needs Humans Left Rooms Function Species Parks Expenses Genes Left Alone Zoos Rangers Biodiversity National Parks Zookeepers

Author:Donella Meadows

“The flow from knowledge to action draws upon the complete person with his or her catalyst and synergistic potential.”

Persons Action Draws Flow Catalyst Biodiversity

Book:The Ralph Nader Reader

Source: The Ralph Nader Reader

“This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.”

World Years Storm Billions Evolve Steady Genes Assembly Biodiversity

Author:E. O. Wilson

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