"Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) refers to the strategically managed network of urban green spaces and natural and semi-natural ecos...

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"(...) new technologies inherently cause people to reencounter spaces. This is not a question of mediation, but rather one of simultan...

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"The rhythms of commuting are exceedingly diverse and shaped by numerous factors, including the mode of transport and its particular...

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"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be Are full of trees and changing leaves." in To The Lighthouse , Virgin...

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"The sun glistens on the leaves in a way I've never seen. It's real. Not like the sun in the Dome. (...) Mother Nature is al...

In the begining of 19th century, "Humboldt was the first to explain the fundamental functions of the forest for the atmosphere and th...

" Mycorrhizal networks (also known as common mycorrhizal networks or CMN) are underground hyphal networks created by mycorrhizal f...

‘forest’ means an area of land defined by the minimum values for area size, tree crown cover or an equivalent stocking level, and potenti...

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" Close your eyes, prick your ears, and from the softest sound to the wildest noise, from the simplest tone to the highest harmony, ...

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“The free-radical theory of ageing is one of those beautiful ideas killed by ugly facts. (…) Not one tenet of the theory, as it was origin...

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"(...) the power for growth comes from the reactivity of the environment,  wich fluxes continuously through living cells  (in the f...

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"The fact that something so fragile, so unbearably tender had survived, had been allowed to exist, was a miracle." Arundhati ...

"After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might ...

"Over time he had acquired the ability to blend into the background (...) It usually took strangers a while to notice him even when t...

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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest cr...

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"Photographs were useful, but somehow always confirmed the memory rather than liberating it." Julian Barnes, 2018, The only stor...

"(...) there are memories that seem to run like a film, smoothly overlaying all the others, that have such shape and form that you s...

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"We are back to family, to the life cycle, to human fragility and experience (...) above all, the virtues of appreciating relationsh...