“The vigorous branching of life's tree, and not the accumulating valor of mythical marches to progress, lies behind the persistence and expansion of organic diversity in our tough and constantly stressful world. And if we do not grasp the fundamental nature of branching as the key to life's passage across the geological stage, we will never understand evolution aright.” IfsWorldLyingBehindsProgressTreeStageKeysEvolutionDiversityToughFundamentalsPersistenceMarchPassagesExpansionStressfulVigorousValor Book:I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History Source: I Have Landed: Splashes and Reflections in Natural History
“Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.” KindMatterLyingEvilDifferencesGenerationsConditionsSubjectsCircumstancesDiversityInfinitePropertySpeciesGood And EvilDecayEntitySubject MatterLife DeathAlterations Author:Giordano Bruno