“Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.” MindNaturalClearMeditationImagineSkyEmptyCalmCloudsSurfaceDisappearLakesStillnessImagine ThatRipple Author:Kathleen McDonald
“Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.” NaturalViolenceIdentityInnovationDisappearQuestsTechnologicalRecourse Author:Marshall McLuhan
“I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved. One response to that is, "Oh well, it's all hopeless. The natural world is getting wrecked, birds are disappearing, the planet is warming and so anything we might do on a smaller scale is meaningless."” IfsThinkingWorldWellsLooksProblemMightNaturalStepsPlanetsBirdResponseDisappearScalesErasHopelessMeaninglessNatural WorldOh Well Author:Jonathan Franzen
“There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear.” HeartDoeNaturalDealsElementsDisappearRealisingGlaciersIcelandNatural Elements Author:James Balog
“I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery, organized piety and nationalistic superstructures. One human figure on the slope of a mountain can make the mountain disappear for me, one person fighting for truth can disqualify for me the entire system which had dispensed it.” PeopleNeedsFeelsBelieveHumansPersonsFightingI BelieveNaturalFiguresMountainIncludingI Believe InDisappearOrganizedPietyScenerySlopesRespect PeopleNationalisticNatural Scenery Author:Leonard Bernstein