If nature had set no limit to the destruction of things, by this time the bodies of matter would have been so far reduced by the destruction of the past that nothing could be conceived out of them and reach maximum growth. For we see that anything is more quickly destroyed than again renewed. If this were the only rule governing matter, the infinite duration of past time could never be renewed again. Surely we see a fixed limit to this breaking! First beginnings therefore are strong in solid singleness and by a denser combination of these, all things can exhibit enduring strength.

To see a world in a grain of sand, And heaven in a wildflower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

Teamwork divides the effort and multiplies the effect.

Prices, wages, interest: all these categories are symbolic constructs that are essential elements in the material operation of modern industrial technology.  No less than the ritual shell sacrifices or beer parties of the Inca emperor, they represent culture-specific, symbolic strategies for making claims on other people's resources.

Nothing happens in living nature that is not in relation to the whole.

Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Plants have been saving the world forever.