“There is a whole crazy world around you. You can't control it, so don't even try. Because the more you try to control your environment, the more it controls you.” WorldTryingWholeHappinessEnvironmentCrazyBuddhismOur EnvironmentCrazy World Author:Frederick Lenz
“Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.” WholeActionValuesEnvironmentEventsFunctionCancerAttractionObligationOur EnvironmentPhysical AttractionImmediacyPhysical Things Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life
“For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.” MenMadeWholePastLife IsIndividualEnvironmentMankindPossessionValuableAgentsOur TimeLinksHeritageMenaceIndividual LifeDeterioration Book:Silent Spring Source: Silent Spring
“The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.” WholeAttentionEnvironmentFieldsEnvironmentalInvisible Author:Marshall McLuhan
“There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower level while holistic implies attention to higher level. These are intertwined in any satisfactory description: and each entails some loss relative to our cognitive preferences, as well as some gain... there is no whole system without an interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without an environment.” WellsWholeCultureStrongLossLevelsViewsAttentionEnvironmentHigherGainsCurrentsContemporaryCuresDescriptionRelativePreferenceCognitiveHigher LevelHolisticAdvocatingIntertwinedInterconnectionReductionism Author:Francisco Varela
“Im interested in the liberating aspect of being totally untethered, let loose in the worst possible environments. My favorite artists are always women that do things that are so wrong... I like things to be seven kinds of wrong. If they are seven kinds of wrong, sometimes the wrongs neutralize themselves, and the whole thing becomes.” IfsKindSometimesWholeArtistEnvironmentWorstAspectSevenMy FavoriteLiberatingFavorite Artist Author:Ashley Bickerton