“As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life – a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no “high-minded orientation,” no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.”
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring 1962
“Scientists, when focusing their research on one particular thing, take a picture, with the linear mind, of the moments and the movements of that living thing through (supposed) three-dimensional space. They separate it out and isolate it. They take a piece of Nature, remove it from the flow of life and time, and study it, trying to understand Nature and life or, perhaps – to them – more simply, the leaf of a plant. But once it is removed from its living context, broken off from the matrix from which it exists, it is no longer what they think it to be. This unnatural separation can never produce the outcome they desire, and everything they decide based on that separation will always end up wrong.”
“What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.”
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