• Thus it is said that Nature does not multiply things unnecessarily; that she makes use of the easiest and simplest means for producing her effects; that she does nothing in vain. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, 22. February 1632

• Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
  Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727) English psysicist, mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, philosopher, nature researcher, civilian administrator, writer, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, New Latin issue 1687, second edition 1713, 1726, 1728

• Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. Francis Bacon [William Shakespeare] (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman, pioneer of the scientific method, lawyer, jurist, author, cited in: Bubo Quote

• In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.
  Niels Bohr (1885-1962) Danish quantum physicist, Nobel laureate in physics, 1922, author, Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature, 1934, Cambridge University Press, reissue edition 27. May 2011

Schedelsche Weltchronik, Erschaffung der Tiere
Nürnberg 1493

• Nature does not do our human either "this" or "that". [...] Nature is very conservative with things that work well and very radical when things don't work. When there is crisis it's an opportunity for change. Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. sahtouris.com (*1950) Greek-American post-Darwinian creationist evolutionary biologist, pastist/futurist, promoter of anthropomorphism over mechanomorphism, business consultant, former UN consultant, Learning from Nature to Create Global Family, World Wisdom Council, Theme Creating a New Civilization, sponsored by Goi Peace Foundation, Tokyo, 12. November 2005

• In fact, nature doesn't do our either-ors. It's either this way or that way. Nature is both-and. It's competitive AND it's co-
  operative. It's profoundly conservative when things are wor-
  king well and gets radically creative when they don't work. [...] Nature has been doing economics [resources, produc-
  tion, distribution, consumption, recycling] for billions of years and may have something to teach us about it. […] We cannot separate ecology [interest of group, bigger whole] from eco-
  nomy [selfinterest] because they are both about how you run the household. What we really need now is ecosophy […] wisdom economics. Video key note presentation by Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. (*1950) Greek-American post-Darwinian creationist evolutionary biologist, pastist/futurist, promoter of anthropomorphism over mechanomorphism, business consultant, former UN consultant, sponsored by Ethical Fashion Symposium, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2010, YouTube film, Nature's ecosophy, part 1, minute 13:45, 14:44 minutes, Nature's ecosophy, part 2, minute 0:00, 13:05 minutes duration, posted 7. June 2011

Definition of God in nature

• The universe, to me, is fundamentally Consciousness – alive, aware and intelligent. This Consciousness is non-local, i.e. everywhere, and is what different cultures variously personify as God, under many names. It is also what physicists now call "zero-point energy" – the infinite energy existing at every point in space.
  Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. (*1950) sahtouris.com (*1950) Greek-American post-Darwinian creationist evolutionary biologist, pastist/futurist, promoter of anthropomorphism over mechanomorphism, business consultant, former UN consultant, cited in:
  blog entry Redefining The Concept of God, presented by the wordpress blog dejavouz, 4. March 2009

• We have now reached a new tipping point where enmities are more expensive in all respects than friendly collaboration; where planetary limits of exploiting nature have been reached. It is high time for us to cross this new tipping point into our global communal maturity. […] In high technology societies, many people are now promoting the observation of nature to learn clean, non-toxic production, full recycling, 'Natural Capitalism,' ethical markets and fair finance. Inte-
  grating all of these with a myriad peacekeeping and human potential efforts we can see it is possible for us to develop ecosophies. Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. sahtouris.com (*1950) Greek-American post-Darwinian creationist evolutionary biologist, pastist/futurist, promoter of anthropomorphism over mechanomorphism, business consultant, former UN consultant, reissued story-
  telling article Ecosophy: Nature's Guide to a Better World, originally presented by the quarterly journal for global transformation
  Kosmos Journal, 2014, Earth Day 2015

Miniature table globe

• When Nature has work to be done [wants to solve a problem], she creates a genius to do it.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) US American philosopher, Unitarian, lecturer, poet, essayist, The Method of Nature, delivered before the Society of the Adelphi, Waterville College, Maine, 11. August 1841

• Biologists know that trees in the forest are social beings. They can count, learn and remember, nurse sick neighbors, warn each other of danger by sending electrical signals across a fungal net-
  work known as the "Wood Wide Web", and, for reasons unknown, keep the ancient stumps of long-felled companions alive for cen-
  turies by feeding them a sugar solution through their roots.
  Peter Wohlleben (*1964) German forest official, faction author, German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks, Too, presented by the US American daily newspaper The New York Times, Sally McGrane, 29. January 2016

• The cornerstone to this failure is man's view that he is separate from Nature, and that only he is sentient. New scientific research showing that plants and trees communicate and behave in ways that engender forest diversity, community, health, productivity, adaptability, resilience – even equanimity (or stability) – challen-
  ges this paradigm. It awakens us to the possibility that Nature's most gentle creatures, forest trees and plants, are sentient beings highly evolved at the community level. Indigenous cultures have long seen this wisdom in forests, but modern society has been blind to it. New scientific evidence of interplant communication and behavior offers us a renewed opportunity to understand and learn from forests as communities. With this insight, we have the capacity
  to help the forest, and hence ourselves, to heal.
  Article Conversations in the forest: The roots of nature's equanimity, presented by the blogspot natureconservancy, Suzanne Simard, Canadian professor of forest ecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 10. March 2015

• After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.
  Walt Whitman (1819-1892) US American Quaker, journalist, poet, essayist, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

• Anything that is of finite size and moves in order to persist in time which means to live must evolve such that it flows more and more easily for a greater and greater access over time. Adrian Bejan, Ph.D., Romanian-American professor of mechanical engineering, Duke University, discoverer of the constructal law of design and evolution in nature, cited in: Video segment of TV documentary series Through the Wormhole Did God Create Evolution Constructal theory, presented by the US American pay television Science Channel, narrated by Morgan Freeman (*1937) US American actor, narrator, producer, produced ~2013, YouTube film, minute 4:31, 6:33 minutes duration, posted 11. November 2021
  • The constructal law was proposed in 1996 as a summary of all design generation and evolution pheno-
    mena in nature, bio and non-bio. The constructal law represents three steps toward making "design in na-
    ture" a concept and law-based domain in science:
    1. Life is flow: all flow systems are live systems, the animate and the inanimate.
    2. Design generation and evolution is a phenomenon of physics.
    3. Designs have the universal tendency to evolve in a certain direction in time.
  The constructal law is proposed as a first principle of physics accounting for all design and evolution in nature. It holds that shape and structure arise to facilitate flow. The designs that happen spontaneously in
  nature reflect this tendency: they allow entities to flow more easily – to measurably move more current farther
  and faster for less unit of useful energy consumed. en.Wikipedia entry [status January 2014], referring to the disco-
  very of Adrian Bejan, Ph.D., Romanian-American professor of mechanical engineering, Duke University, discoverer of the constructal law of design and evolution in nature

• Even if modern men of science will not accept it, there is a relationship between Nature and the soul. Mother
  Nature now attunes itself to our civilization and begins also to visit destruction.
  ⚡ David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. (1927-2012) US American physician, psychiatrist, consciousness researcher, teacher of
  the path of enlightenment, author, source unknown

• As long as our economic system is based on chasing economic growth above all else, we are heading for environmental, and economic, disaster. To avoid this fate, we must switch our focus from quantitative growth to qualitative development, and set strict limits on the rate at which we consume the Earth's resources. In such a "steady-state" economy, the value of goods produced can still increase […] but the physical scale of our economy must be kept at a level the planet is able
  to sustain. Herman Daly (*1938) US American professor of ecological economics, school of public policy, University of Maryland, College Park, senior environmental economist, World Bank, cited in: Continued focus on economic growth will doom the planet, presented by the publication Mongabay.com, 12. November 2008

Colorado River Delta as seen from space, 2004
Isla Montague is the large island in the center.

• The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.
  Dr. Malidoma Patrice Somé (1956-2021) West African Burkina
  Faso born, American based psychologist, medicine man, author, Of Water and the Spirit. Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman, Penguin, revised edition 28. September
  1995, paperback, 31. December 2011

• Grandfather used to call the rain 'the erotic ritual between heaven and Earth.' The rain represented the seeds sown in the Earth's womb by heaven, her roaring husband, to further life. Rainy encounters between heaven and Earth were sexual love on a cosmic scale. All of nature became involved. Clouds, heaven's body, were titillated by the storm. In turn, heaven caressed the Earth with heavy winds, which rushed toward their erotic climax, the tornado. The grasses that pop out of the Earth's warm center shortly after the rain are called the numberless children of Earth who will serve humankind's need for nourishment. The rainy season is the season of life. Yes, it had rained the night before.
  Dr. Malidoma Patrice Somé (1956-2021) West African Burkina Faso born, American based psychologist, medicine man, author, Of Water and the Spirit. Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman, Penguin, revised edition 28. September 1995, paperback, 31. December 2011

• The Moon 満月
  Before human beings possessed fire or tools or language, the moon had been their ally. It would calm people's fears now and then by illuminating the dark world like a heavenly lantern. Its waxing and waning gave people an understanding of the concept of time. Even now, when darkness had been banished from most parts of the world, there remained a sense of human gratitude toward the
  moon and its unconditional compassion. It was imprinted upon human genes like a warm collective memory.
  Haruki Murakami (*1949) Japanese writer, Haruki Murakami Quotes, quote (1Q84), presented by murakamiquotes.com

• Outside of urban nature, most of the peer-reviewed science has been done on northern temperate forests. We know from the research that people respond very favourably to water, for instance, whether a fountain in a healing garden
  or a river or shoreline environment. We know less about response to tropical environments or desert environments.
  And we do know that we don't need endemic nature – ornamental nature or designed nature or even engineered
  nature can be effective.
  Not only were we part of nature as we evolved, but we were dependent on it. We had to rely on our senses, our in-
  tuition, and our responses in order to find food, water, shelter – the absolutely important things. We hunted or grew
  our food; we carried it back to the tribe.
  The research is starting to suggest that children who do not experience sufficient amounts of nature at an early age
  do not develop proper immune functions to protect them as they get older. To be in nature is to ingest those things
  that set up a healthy, thriving microbiome. And because of the sterility of some of our cities, with no parks and no
  trees, without that inoculation of nature, children are set back.
  Dr. Kathleen Wolf, US American environmental researcher, University of Washington, speaker, author, cited in: essay (audio
  availed) The healing power of nature, presented by the philosophical and cultural online magazine Aeon, Rebecca Lawton,
  fluvial geologist, writer, edited by Pam Weintraub, 6. September 2017

• Humanity has no more than ten years to reverse the trend and avoid crossing into this territory life on Earth as
  we have never known it.
  We have created phenomena we cannot control. Since our origins, water, air and forms of life are intimately linked.
  But recently, we have broken those links.
  • 20% of the world’s population consumes 80% of its resources.
  • The world spends 12 times more on military expenditures than on aid to developing countries.
  • 5,000 people a day die because of dirty drinking water.
  • 1 billion people have no access to safe drinking water.
  • Nearly 1 billion people are going hungry.
  • Over 50% of grain traded around the world is used for animal feed or bio fuels.
  • 40% of arable land has suffered long-term damage.
  • Every year, 13 million hectares of forest disappear.
  • One mammal in 4, one bird in 8, one amphibian in 3 are threatened with extinction.
  • Species are dying out at a rhythm 1,000 times faster than the natural rate.
  • Three quarters of fishing grounds are exhausted, depleted or in dangerous decline.
  • The average temperature of the last 15 years have been the highest ever recorded.
  • The ice cap is 40% thinner than 40 years ago.
  • There may be at least 200 million climate refugees by 2050.

• I don't like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains – not hike! Do you know the origin of that word 'saunter?' It's a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, 'A la sainte terre,' 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are
  our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them.
  John Muir (1838-1914) Scottish-born US American naturalist, early advocate of the preservation of American wilderness, author,
  cited in: Albert W. Palmer, A Parable of Sauntering, excerpted from: The Mountain Trail and Its Message, 1911

• The twisted tree lives out its life, the straight tree finishes up as a board. Chinese proverb