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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
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
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
It’s quiet compounding, and it’s a wonder to see.
Collab Fund • Quiet Compounding
Nature prefers growth that is either vertigo-inducing or decidedly softer: exponentials and logarithms appear everywhere in its equations. Nature is, by its own nature, nonlinear.
Paolo Giordano • How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness, and Community in Times of Global Crises - The Essay That Helped Change the Covid-19 Debate
Humans are nature. There is no such thing as a separate nature. That is, it seems quite silly that humans still say things like: “I love to get out into nature.” Or “I’m really inspired by nature.” Or “we have to get back to nature.” What a weird, common, and deep lapse this is. The divisions we see are made by us and are of a wholly provisional
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