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“In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.”

May Play Nature Stage Setting Settings Vacation Props

Book:From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

Source: From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

“The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.”

Mean Doe Sometimes Science Nature Stage Tasks Mastery Comprehension

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.”

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.”

Art Beautiful Values Language Nature Ability Quality Stage Perceive Land Conservation

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its nearness ... A new day has begun on the crane marsh. A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place ... Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.”

Art Beautiful Lying Values Language Nature Ability Silence Quality Stage Cry Lows Heavy Perceive Shakes Thick Horns New Day Trumpets Marshes Cranes Bogs Pandemonium

Author:Aldo Leopold

“We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything.”

May Has Beens Said Science Process Understanding Nature Stage Evolution Scientist Notion Primitive Essays Paradigm Refined Explicit Implicit Developmental

Author:Thomas Kuhn

“I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have shown that there is a correspondence between the succession of Fishes in geological times and the different stages of their growth in the egg,-this is all. It chanced to be a result that was found to apply to other groups and has led to other conclusions of a like nature.”

Source: Agassiz on Evolution: Methods of study in natural history

“Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of the science, and thus what appears to us as elegance of description really reflects the interconnectedness of Nature's laws at different levels.”

Different Law Science Term Nature Simple Levels Stage Expression Development Simplicity Mathematical Description Equations Elegance Interconnectedness Different Levels Stages Of Development

Author:Murray Gell-Mann