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“We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.”

“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”

“Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from a body at higher temperature to a body at lower temperature because the state of equal temperature distribution is more probable than a state of unequal temperature distribution.”

States Body Science Process Nature Greater Higher Equal Heat Probability Distribution Temperature

Book:Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909

Source: Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics Delivered at Columbia University in 1909

“Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to some incalculable end, or the gold sallow catkin with its flashing system of little flies?”

Littles Ends Nature Sun Creative Greater Planets Gold Creative Power Impetus

Author:Mary Webb

“Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants, animals, and soil. Human industry has been in full swing for little over a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do.”

Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

“The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace - upward, onward, heavenward, homeward.”

May Eye Night Turns Voice Nature Greater Calling Aim Safety Ladders Footsteps Tempest Voice Of God Singleness Ardor

Author:John Ross Macduff

“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”

Understanding Nature Greater Senses Subtlety

Author:Francis Bacon

“I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.”

Looks Might Spirit Nature Greater Racism Weight South Size Crush Native Racist Ants

Author:Miriam Makeba

“The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.”

Source: The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley

“There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.”

Science Nature Natural Greater Theology Absurdity Parallels

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.”

Has Beens Action Science Energy Nature Natural Greater Movement Periods Torn Framework

Author:Adam Sedgwick