There is an ongoing race between software developers, to create more foolproof software, and nature, to create better fools. So far ... nature is winning. Don Hansford - Warwick TAFE teacher
“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” Kenneth Boulding, (economist & past-president American Economic Association); ca. 1980. Boulding also wrote the paper The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth (https://dieoff.org/page160.htm), which is an excellent, thought provoking read.
". . . each individual and each culture has a unique perspective on the whole of human experience in our world and cosmos, . . . giving us a basis to move beyond tolerance into mutual respect . . . in our stories of How Things Are." -- Elisabet Sahtouris
<3 gday, hope i'm not overdoing it, but i do love my quotes --- if freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will have freedom laws are never as effective as habits if we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it -- immanuel hermann fichte confucius say 'when in hole stop digging' the trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise, than saved by criticism you don't stop playing because you get old, you get old because you stop playing absorb what is useful, reject what is useless the secret of happiness: to accept change gracefully the saddest words of tongue or pen are these four words: it might have been -- oliver wendell holmes what the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly life is pleasant. death is peaceful. its the transition thats troublesome. -- isaac asimov every life comes to an end, when time demands it ... loss of life is to be mourned, but only if the life was wasted ... -- vulcan proverb I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. -- jack london Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. man - the living creature, the creating individual - is always more important than any establisehd style or system -- bruce lee Nature commits no errors; right and wrong are human categories. Pardot Kynes, Arrakis Lectures -- frank herbert (dune) I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride. -- William James All men dream, but not all equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake to find it was all vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous, for they may act their dreams with open arms and make things happen. -- T. E. Lawrence (aka Lawrence of Arabia) the people on top of the mountain did not fall there
We're Australians, we're not in it to win medals. We're in it to build dunnies. And that's what we're doing. Australian doctor involved in medical health program for Tibetan monks Australia Story 1/06/2010 https://www.abc.net.au/austory/default.htm OPPs that's not the show! This is https://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2010/s2910805.htm?site=sydney
We have a lot of work to do. We need to reinvent our infrastructure to harmonize with nature's infrastructure. We're dreaming a world where many worlds can fit. It is at once a new dream and an ancient dream... that all life is connected, that we are all connected, that we are all related. Kenny Ausubel
Buddha All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
These bits from The Unprepared Society by Donald Michael, on what sort of education we need have always struck a chord with me even when i first read them 40 years ago. They seem even more relevant and urgent today. "We must educate people to have long range perspectives, to think in terms of many variables related to each other rather than certainties. . . . We must educate so people can cope efficiently, imaginatively, and perceptibly with information overload. . . We must educate for empathy, compassion, trust, nonexploitiveness, non manipulativeness, for self-growth and self esteem, for tolerance of ambiguity, for acknowledgment of error, for patience, for suffering." The Unprepared Society by Donald Michael Basic books NY 1968
The sky is held up by trees. Nativa American saying. Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another. Tom Robbins.
Solitude shows us what we should be, society shows us what we are. Heres the riddle for our age: When the sky is the limit, how can you tell when you have gone too far?
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson