While nature calls to mind the whole shebang, ecosystems describe the relationships between all of it. Ecosystems speak more specifically to the processes of nature. Nature is a state of being while ecosystems suggest how it came to be, and suggest where it might be going. Ecosystems are a spiritualContinue Reading

All animals have evolved in landscapes to chase matter, to desire it, and often, to possess it. Landscapes are competitive, full of struggle and desire. But ecosystems consist of many landscapes together, co-existing in harmony. So, on an individual level all living beings must deal with competition. But in those momentsContinue Reading

Socrates: Remember that I did not ask you to give me two or three examples of piety, but to explain the general idea which makes all pious things to be pious. Do you not recollect that there was one idea which made the impious impious, and the pious pious?Euthyphro: IContinue Reading