Category: Nature
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Nature is Self-Organizing
When driven into far-from-equilibrium conditions, systems do not just break down, they generate new structures that pull higher forms of order out of the surrounding chaos. It is as if nature reaches into herself and draws forth structures that reflect the inherent potential of the system for higher orders of self-organization. Duane Elgin, Systems theorist,…
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Molecules in a Cup of Water
There are more molecules of water in one cup of the stuff than there are cups of water in all the world’s oceans. Every cup that passes through a single person and eventually rejoins the world’s water supply, holds enough molecules to mix 1,500 of them into every other cup of water in the world.…
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The True Peace
What is Life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. The True Peace. The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within…
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The Function of Beauty
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The Coherence of Living Systems
Living systems are astonishingly coherent. The human body, for example, consists of anywhere from 37.2 trillion to 100 trillion cells, and each cell produces 10,000 bioelectrochemical reactions every second. Every 24-hours, 1,012 cells die and are replaced. Ervin Laszlo, Systems scientistAuthor,The Intelligence of the Cosmos: Why Are We Here? New Answers from the Frontiers of…
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Art
Nature’s Interpreter The beautiful is a manifestation of the secret laws of nature… When nature begins to reveal her open secret to a person, he feels an irresistible longing for her most worthy interpreter, art. Johann Wolfgang Goethe, German poet, scientist, novelist, statesman, playwright
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The Measure of Civilization
I do not think the measure of a civilization is how tall its buildings of concrete are, but rather how well its people have learned to relate to their environment and fellow man. Sun Bear, Chippewa Tribe, Native American
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Planetary Stewardship
We must move beyond democracy to biocracy, beyond loyalty to our own tribe to a view of ourselves as citizens of planet Earth… We must begin to see ourselves as interrelated and interdependent with the animate and inanimate elements of our planet and begin to follow earth’s house rules of limited use, recycling, and long-term…
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The Universe in a Chair
When we look at a chair, we see the wood, but we fail to observe the tree, the forest, the carpenter or our own mind. When we meditate on it, we can see the entire universe in all its interwoven and interdependent relations in the chair. The presence of the wood reveals the presence of…
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