"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."

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"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."

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"I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations."

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"A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy."

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"Nature is in the process of shutting down corrupt corporations and their government minions."

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"There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless."

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"People decided that trees have no feelings."

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Explore more quotes by Kevin Kelly

"Managing bottom-up change is its own art."

Art

"And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs."

Decision-Making

"The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient."

Being

"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."

Research

"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."

Design

"Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far."

Design

"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 to deal with change in the environment."

Change

"We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks."

Help

"The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system."

Nature

"It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it."

Science