Biophilia Quotes

To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope.

Adam Leith Gollner

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

Edward O. Wilson

How lucky country children are in these natural delights that lie ready to their hand! Every season and every plant offers changing joys. As they meander along the lane that leads to our school all kinds of natural toys present themselves for their diversion. The seedpods of stitchwort hang ready for delightful popping between thumb and finger, and later the bladder campion offers a larger, if less crisp, globe to burst. In the autumn, acorns, beechnuts, and conkers bedizen their path, with all their manifold possibilities of fun. In the summer, there is an assortment of honeys to be sucked from bindweed flowers, held fragile and fragrant to hungry lips, and the tiny funnels of honeysuckle and clover blossoms to taste.

Miss Read