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nature makes only what she wants where she wants and when she wants.
Janine M. Benyus • Biomimicry
Nature transcends our tendencies to label and classify, to reduce and limit. The natural world is unfathomably more rich, interwoven, and complicated than we are taught, and so much more mysterious and beautiful.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
If we truly live into the fact that we are life, that we are nature, and as such are bound by kinship and interdependence to the community of life that human and planetary health depend upon, we will come to regard the creation of a globally regenerative civilization
Daniel Wahl • Designing Regenerative Cultures
Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.
Janine M. Benyus • Biomimicry
adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are Life, in human form. Ancestors of the stars and galaxies, children of the oceans and forests. We are Creative expressions of the Universe, as much a part of this planet as the rivers, trees, mountains and butterflies. Every atom of "you" has been a part of this Earth for billions of years, and to Mother Earth each atom shall return. Modern h
... See moreNature is not a resource, it is a mentor.
Nature only needs "What works." And, as Meg Wheatley points out, it isn't "What works best." Nature doesn't care if it's not perfect. If it's a solution that works, nature uses it.
Phyllis Kirk JD • Quantum Lite Simplified
So I start from the premise that nature is smarter than I am and try to let nature teach me how reality works.