Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.
A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there... And at the end of your life, your whole existence has that same haphazard quality,too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.
Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.
Living systems are not like mechanical systems. Living are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable, but they are not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.
Discovery is always a rape of the natural world.
Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away: it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.
All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.
Just because it lasted a long time, doesn't mean it is permanent.
We haven't got the power to destroy the planet--or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
