"Love is our natural condition, and it is the denial of love what requires all our rational efforts, but what for, when life is so much better in love than in aggression? Love needs not to be learned, it can be allowed to be or it can be denied, but needs not to be learned, because it is our biological fundament and the only basis for the conservation of our human beingness as well as our well-being. Love is not a virtue, indeed love is nothing special, it is only the fundament of our human existence as the kind of primates that we are as human beings"
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Humberto Maturana & Gerda Verden-Zoller, Biology of love, 1996. p. 33; cited at designforsustainability.medium.com, by Daniel Christian Wahl, May 12, 2017.
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