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We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

Stephen Jay Gould
Nature, Fighting, Emotional
Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.

Stephen Jay Gould
Nature, Ecology, Persistent

The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves).

Stephen Jay Gould
Nature, Self, True Beauty
"Bully for Brontosaurus". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. Prologue, pp. 16 - 17, 1991.

Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?

Stephen Jay Gould
Nature, Compassion, Interesting
"Eight Little Piggies". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Tires to sandals", 1993.

We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.

Stephen Jay Gould
Nature, Animal, Diversity

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