28 Quotes by Stephen Harrod Buhner

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction. ALBERT EINSTEIN.

Invasive plants – Earth’s way of insisting we notice her medicines.

The tree does not end at it’s skin but exists also in the rain that falls downwind, many miles from the forest. In the seed exists the acorn, the oak, and the shade.

The brain that we think of as a necessity for intelligence is only one possible form a neural network can take and that is determined by ecological function and species shape; it is not essential to intelligence. As neurologist Antonio Damasio puts it, “the mind is embodied, not just embrained.

Golda looked back at me – those peaceful eyes! – and said in the most penetrating voice I had ever heard, ‘Because the Nazis taught me this: There is a Hitler inside each of us and if we do not heal the Hitler inside of ourselves, then the violence, it will never stop.

And even though these words are moving into you through a visual medium – the printed words on this page – as you became immersed in this book, you no longer saw the words as a visual input. You’d left that surface orientation behind. You began, then, to work with, and experience, the meanings that these words are only the containers for.

Rightly did Darwin pin up a paper warning himself to be careful about using the words “higher” and “lower.” MARY MIDGLEY.

Gaia does not use top-down control over the parts that make up the whole. that approach is the least adaptable and least functional of all.

Those who have lost, as James Hillman put it, the response of the heart to what is presented to the senses, are sometimes so trained to believe that the objects outside them have no “feeling reality” to them that all feeling inflows of that sort are gated entirely.