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“Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.”

Care Fall Nature Cities Brain Blood Walking Pressure Complexes Dawn Relief Yellow Hiking Trails City Life Forests And Trees Wailing Coyotes Nature Walk

Author:Hamlin Garland

“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.”

People Feels Should Mind Looks Nature Worry Flower Should Have Complexes Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inferiors Inferiority Inferiority Complex

Author:Alan Kay

“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.”

“Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.”

Kind Order Nature Complexes Chaotic Orderly

Book:The Practice of the Wild

Source: The Practice of the Wild

“It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms so different from each other and dependent on each other and so complex a manner have all been produced by laws acting around us.”

Source: The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species

“Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer, mathematics plays in some respects a very limited, in others a very important part. As regards the limitations, it is merely necessary to refer to the sciences connected with living matter, and to the ologies generally, to see that the facts and their connections are too indistinctly known to render mathematical analysis practicable, to say nothing of the complexity.”

“We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.”

Source: The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations

“Combining in our survey then, the whole range of deposits from the most recent to the most ancient group, how striking a succession do they present:- so various yet so uniform-so vast yet so connected. In thus tracing back to the most remote periods in the physical history of our continents, one system of operations, as the means by which many complex formations have been successively produced, the mind becomes impressed with the singleness of nature's laws; and in this respect, at least, geology is hardly inferior in simplicity to astronomy.”

Source: The silurian system, founded on geological researches in the counties of Salop, Hereford etc