“Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.” HumansHas BeensEarthWaterEnvironmentWindCivilizationCreatingPatternsDesertCyclesDroughtDamsDeforestationHuman CivilizationUrbanization Author:Jamais Cascio
“In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.” WorldWayKindDifferentSometimesEarthFormCertainGroupsConditionsMaterialsCreatingPatternsArchitectureAuthenticityRelevantNobilityScarceTextilesMaterialityHybridity Author:David Adjaye
“Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.” WorldBelieveStoriesUseOrderNextI BelieveProcessStageInformationEvolutionCreatingUltimateMethodPatternsOur WorldProcessingEpochInformation Processing Author:Ray Kurzweil
“I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and you visit the area and present the case to the local people, they threaten to hang you. You go back in five years and they think it's the greatest thing that ever happened.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsCasesFiveHappenedCreatingAreasPatternsLocalsParksFive YearsDozenLegislationProposeNational Parks Author:Mo Udall
“I've been creating work by silk-screening images of arms and legs and heads and objects on paper - like drawings of vegetables, guns, hats, whatever - and then also printing sheets of patterns, colorful polka dots and line drawing patterns.” LinesObjectsArmsPaperCreatingGunPatternsLegsDrawingHatsVegetablesSheetsPrintingSilkDotsColorfulScreeningArms And LegsPolkaPolka Dots Author:Brian Chippendale
“There are some - called 'death fatigue' - people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death and creating more victims and more anger and more pain. They want to heal from that, and I think that's exactly what God wants to do. And, interestingly enough, that's part of what God's original law was doing with the 'eye for an eye' thing. It was actually to limit the patterns of retaliation and then to begin to heal from that.” PeopleThinkingWantEnoughEyePainLawGrowsLimitsCreatingOriginalsVictimTiredPatternsHealFatigueRetaliationPerpetuatingEye For An Eye Author:Shane Claiborne
“The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god's hands, not yours. page~147” GivingFirstsChildrenSelfHandsRealityRememberGrowsProcessSpaceAcceptingStepsAwarenessRight NowCreatingCriticismSelf AwarenessPatternsFirmGentleCompassionateFirst StepsTimingHarshStubbornSelf Criticism Author:Dan Millman