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Biophilia

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Harvard University Press, 1984 - Science - 167 pages
The eminent biologist reflects on his own response to nature and the aesthetic aspects of his exploration of natural systems in an intensely personal essay that examines the essential links between mankind and the rest of the living world
  

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User Review  - Melissa - Goodreads

This skinny little book is a thought-provoking exercise in seeing the world in different ways. It is beautifully written, scientifically engaging, and politically inspiring. Wilson's glimpse into the ... Read full review

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I'm thinking about reading a book by an entomologist. God help me. Read full review

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Contents

Prologue
1
Bernhardsdorp
3
The Superorganism
23
The Time Machine
39
The Bird of Paradise
51
The Poetic Species
57
The Serpent
83
The Right Place
103
The Conservation Ethic
119
Surinam
141
Reading Notes
147
Acknowledgments
159
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Biophilia hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term "biophilia" literally means "love of life or living systems." It was first used by Erich Fromm to describe a psychological orientation of being ...
en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Biophilia

Edward O. Wilson's Biophilia Hypothesis
Edward O. Wilson, a Harvard University entomologist, coined the term "biophilia", referring to humans' "love of living things" - our innate affinity with ...
wilderdom.com/ evolution/ BiophiliaHypothesis.html

biophilia
The installation Biophilia will enable participants to interact with and generate organic forms based upon the distortion of the users shadow. ...
wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ multimedia/ mark/ biophil/ biophil.html

World Wide Words: Biophilia
Explaining the meaning and the story behind the term 'biophilia'.
www.worldwidewords.org/ turnsofphrase/ tp-bio2.htm

Biophilia and Chemiphilia
inner direction of biophilia. In other words, instinct is in ... mists, analogous in some ways to eo Wilson’s biophilia. J. Meinwald. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. ...
www.ias.ac.in/ currsci/ feb102004/ 363.pdf

Arousing Biophilia
The title of the colloquium, which was sponsored by the Myrin Institute and the college, was taken from an essay by Edward C. Wolf, "Arousing Biophilia" ...
arts.envirolink.org/ interviews_and_conversations/ EOWilson.html

Research: Biophilia
The study of biophilia is still in its early stages but much excitement is on the ... While the new research on biophilia will take 5-years to complete, ...
www.planterra.com/ research/ article_biophilia.php

American Scientist Online - In Biophilia He Trusts
Biophilia is best revealed among certain groups of people: "To see most clearly ... The biophilia gene: "The environmental values of secular and religious ...
www.americanscientist.org/ template/ AssetDetail/ assetid/ 12863;jsessionid=baa9...

geoecology: Videophilia trounces biophilia, tune in for details...
Biophilia, Edward O. Wilson's label for our innate love of nature, as we express it through nature-based recreation activities, is losing ground to ...
ohiogeologyandbiodiversity.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 02/ videophilia-trounces-biophilia-tune-in.html

mkzdk: The Biophilia Hypothesis
we will not enter this kingdom of sustainability until we allow our children the kind of childhood in which Biophilia can put down roots. ...
www.mkzdk.org/ biophilia2.html

About the author (1984)

He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1929. He is currently Pellegrino University Research Professor & Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. He is on the Board of Directors of the Nature Conservancy, Conservation International & the American Museum of Natural History. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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