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There is a secret formula hidden deep in nature’s intelligence, which catalyzed each of life’s great evolutionary leaps over billions of years and forms the basis of all ecosystems. It’s captured in the simple but profound concept of mutually beneficial symbiosis: a relationship between two parties to which each contributes something the other lack... See more
Jeremy Lent • What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
Honeybees exhibit random exploratory behavior when foraging for nectar and pollen, and so do bats that forage for fruits. Plants disperse their seeds through the wind in random patterns. This randomness increases the likelihood that seeds will land in a suitable environment for germination and growth. Our own genes continue to mutate randomly, whic... See more
Connecting the Dots
AT THE HEART OF THE UNIVERSE IS a steady, insistent beat: the sound of cycles in sync. It pervades nature at every scale from the nucleus to the cosmos.
Steven H. Strogatz • Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
Abundance This abundance of berries feels like a pure gift from the land. I have not earned, paid for, nor labored for them. There is no mathematics of worthiness that reckons I deserve them in any way.
Emergence Magazine • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Of all the great works that we can experience, nature is the most absolute and enduring.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rather, living entities are generators of meaning. They mine their environment (including their own bodies) for things that have meaning for them: moisture, nutrients, warmth. It is not sentimental but simply following the same logic to say that, for we human organisms, another of those meaningful things is love.
Philip Ball • How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
because that is what nature did to death, it transformed abrupt endings into a thousand new beginnings.
Elif Shafak • The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel
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