Many / One
A database of 11,000+ illuminated guiding quotations in 40 categories from 600+ inspired books by our most brilliant and influential authors.
Compiled by JoAnn Kite
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"As James Lovelock put it: 'So closely coupled is the evolution of living organisms with the evolution of their environment that together they constitute a single evolutionary process.'"
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"Whenever we encounter living systems – organisms, parts of organisms, or communities of organisms – we can observe that their components are arranged in network fashion. Whenever we look at life, we look at networks."
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"A key characteristic of Gaia [the Earth] is the complex interweaving of living and nonliving systems within a single web."
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"All living systems are networks of smaller components, and the web of life as a whole is a multilayered structure of living systems nesting within other living systems – networks within networks."
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"Wherever we see life, from bacteria to large-scale ecosystems, we observe networks with components that interact with one another in such a way that the entire network regulates and organizes itself."
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"The 'web of life' is, of course, an ancient idea, which has been used by poets, philosophers, and mystics throughout the ages to convey their sense of the interwovenness and interdependence of all phenomena."
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"We are now beginning to see continual cooperation and mutual dependence among all life forms as central aspects of evolution."
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"From the most archaic and simple forms of life to the most intricate and complex contemporary forms, life has unfolded in a continual dance without ever breaking the basic pattern of its autopoietic networks."
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"Deep ecological awareness recognizes the fundamental interdependence of all phenomena."
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"To regain our full humanity, we have to regain our experience of connectedness with the entire web of life."
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"All living beings are members of ecological communities bound together in a network of interdependencies."
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"Deep ecology does not separate humans – or anything else – from the natural environment. It sees the world not as a collection of isolated objects, but as a network of phenomena that are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent."
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"Ultimately – as quantum physics showed so dramatically – there are no parts at all. What we call a part is merely a pattern in an inseparable web of relationships."
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"Nature does not show us any isolated building blocks, but rather appears as a complex web of relationships among the various parts of a unified whole."
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