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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
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
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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
I want to understand how we humans do that—how we earn a place on this precious planet, get in the “right relationship” with it.5 So I am focusing on the ways creatures and ecosystems function together in and with the natural world.
