FROM EARTH TO EARTH
The old oak tree surrounded by the hopeful dropped seeds which are the products of her summer
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
“The one is made up of all things, and all things issue from the one”
Heraclitus‘s tenth fragment,
“No man is an island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. “
John Donne’s “Meditation XVII: – Devotions upon Emergent Occasions”
Quantum Theory and Connections
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated “building blocks,” but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object’s interaction with the observer.
Fritjof Capra
In The Tao of Physics (1975), 68.