EarthDance Quotes

“Indeed nature is more suggestive of a mother juggling resources to ensure each family member’s welfare as she works out differences of interest to make the whole family a cooperative venture, than of a rational engineer designing perfect machinery that obeys unchangeable laws.”
― Elisabet Sahtouris, EarthDance:Living Systems in Evolution

“Life, then, is the most powerful of geological transformers.”
― Elisabet Sahtouris, EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution

“Vernadsky understood metabolism as the activity of all Earth's living matter taken together, as well as that of any particular organism, since he saw all living matter as a constantly shifting high-energy portion of the Earth's crust.”
― Elisabet Sahtouris, EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution

“Metabolism, then, is the most basic autopoietic activity of all life.”
― Elisabet Sahtouris, EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution

“Evolution is this improvised dance of transformation in which ecological balance is worked out again and again.”
― Elisabet Sahtouris, EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution

“The balance between any holon's autonomy and holonomy must be worked out as mutual consistency if the holon is to survive as part of a holarchy, and it cannot survive in any other way if we accept the fundamental notion of mutual consistency”
― Elisabet Sahtouris, EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution