"When one becomes a child of nature, one is encompassed by a natural beauty that only nature can give. The more one returns to th...

  "There is no linear increase in fluidity without extensive systems of immobility." Elliott & Urry, 2010. Mobile Lives. ...

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"This is the third in a series of reports on the circular economy in support of the framing, implementation and evaluation of Euro...

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"(...) the feel of the stone beneath my feet, the colour and the smell of the sea, the caress of the breeze on my cheek, the texture of...

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"I planted seeds in a beautiful garden that I will never see and they will become tall  trees. I left some love and fantasies. This...

"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 ...