"There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A caterpillar eats a leaf; a robin eats the caterpillar; a hawk eats the robin. When the plant, caterpillar, robin, and hawk die, they are in turn consumed by decomposers."

-- G. Tyler Miller

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“Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.”
“Ideas are more powerful than people.”
“Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.”
“Never settle for anything less than your best.”
“An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.”
“If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely.”
“Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts automatically to information which you give to it from your forebrain. Your nervous system reacts appropriately to what you THINK or IMAGINE to be 'true.”
“Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.”

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