Tag: interconnectedness
9 quotes
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The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we…
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All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections.
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With its glorious nonhuman past and its uncertain but provocative future, this life, our life, is embedded now, as it always has been, in the rest of Earth’s sentient symphony.
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Cease not to think of the Universe as one living Being, possessed of a single Substance and a single Soul; and how all things trace back to its single sentience; and how it does all things by a single impulse; and how all existing things are joint…
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Kinship is everything in our world, and you cannot act, speak or even exist without being situated in a relationship in any given context.
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When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters
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When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.
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The most outstanding scientific discovery of the 20th century is not the radio or television, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only those that know the most about it can appreciate how little is known about it. The last word in…
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We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather…