Eutopias Or Outopias3 Muses Books, SynGeo ArchiGraph, 2006 - Всего страниц: 258 Choosing to design and make good places with philosophical ideas and cultural images. |
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A. N. Whitehead actions adapted agriculture ahimsa animals arcologies areas Associated Nations become behavior biological Buckminster Fuller characteristics civilization complex conflict conservation considered cooperation cosmology countries create cycles democides destruction diversity earth East Timor ecological design economic ecosystems enantiodromia environment environmental ethics Eutopias failure flexibility forest framework Garrett Hardin gigatrends global goals groups habitats harmony human cultures human rights ideas images increase individual industrial cultures instance interactions kind knowledge land landscape lead Leopold Kohr limits living logic meaning metaphor million moral moral syndrome myths nature nonviolent organization Paolo Soleri participate patterns Paul Shepard peace percent Perhaps planning plants political population preserve problems production reduce responsibility result scale social society species structure theory things Thought experiments traditional tragedy trees understanding values whole wild wilderness word
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Стр. 44 - I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny.
Стр. 44 - It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Стр. 159 - But to me it has a world of meaning, and takes me into realms much higher, infinitely higher. It really means that you may not offend anybody; you may not harbour an uncharitable thought, even in connection with one who may consider himself to be your enemy.
Стр. 121 - A tragedy, then, is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in language with pleasurable accessories, each kind brought in separately in the parts of the work; in a dramatic, not in a narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.
Стр. 147 - T enjoy the World's Conveniences, Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease, Without great Vices, is a vain EUTOPIA seated in the Brain. Fraud, Luxury and Pride must live, While we the Benefits receive: Hunger's a dreadful Plague, no doubt Yet who digests or thrives without?
Стр. 213 - Mythic symbols store information concisely, which makes it possible for a person to assimilate the collective experiences of a culture.
Стр. 50 - When it did, man's position was very nearly that of a dove which, by some unnatural trick of nature, has suddenly acquired the beak of a raven. One shudders at the thought of a creature as irascible as all prehuman primates are, swinging a well-sharpened hand-ax.
Стр. 159 - ... area development and other forms of destruction of the wilderness, as well as cancerous suburban sprawl. But it must be strategic, it must be thoughtful, it must be deliberate in order to succeed. Such a campaign of resistance would follow these principles: Monkeywrenching is non-violent Monkeywrenching is non-violent resistance to the destruction of natural diversity and wilderness.