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For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.

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Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

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We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

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