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Environment Quotes by Kevin Kelly
- In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
- Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
- Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
- The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most…
- When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism…
- The organization and the environment are in concert.
- The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting…
- Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the…
- But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to…
- An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able…
- The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
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- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
- Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. — Francis Bacon
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon