“Basically, what I'm saying is not at all new to Eastern philosophy. It's never seen the world as anything else but a complex system. But it's a world view that, decade by decade, is becoming more important in the West-both in science and in the culture at large. Very, very slowly, there's been a gradual shift from an exploitative view of nature-man versus nature-to an approach that stresses the mutual accomodation of man and nature. What has happened is that we're beginning to lose our innocence, or naivete, about how the world works. As we begin to understand complex systems, we begin to understand that we're part of an ever-changing, interlocking, nonlinear, kaleidoscopic world.”