Comments on: The Diversity of Life http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/02/23/the-diversity-of-life/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:33:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sameer http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/02/23/the-diversity-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-5841 Sameer Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:45:31 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/02/23/the-diversity-of-life/#comment-5841 I guess this quote has now become a cliche, but I like it's poetic form. "This we know... everything is connected. Like the blood that unites one family. Man did not weave the web of life He is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web He does it to himself" --Chief Seattle (c.1786 – June 7, 1866) Now I know there is a controversy about the speech and whether the Chief actually said the words about the "web of life". BUT... I like to believe that in this quote there is a guideline for an ethic based on time scale longer than we are accustomed to apply. I guess this quote has now become a cliche, but I like it’s poetic form.

“This we know… everything is connected.
Like the blood that unites one family.
Man did not weave the web of life
He is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web
He does it to himself”
–Chief Seattle (c.1786 – June 7, 1866)

Now I know there is a controversy about the speech and whether the Chief actually said the words about the “web of life”. BUT…

I like to believe that in this quote there is a guideline for an ethic based on time scale longer than we are accustomed to apply.

]]> By: Uday http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/02/23/the-diversity-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-5817 Uday Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:24:33 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/02/23/the-diversity-of-life/#comment-5817 Vivek, thanks so much for sharing such a beautiful and informative article. Vivek, thanks so much for sharing such a beautiful and informative article.

]]> By: Atanu Dey on India’s Development » Storm over the Amazon http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/02/23/the-diversity-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-5815 Atanu Dey on India’s Development » Storm over the Amazon Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:17:45 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/02/23/the-diversity-of-life/#comment-5815 [...] k I am continuing to read E. O. Wilson’s The Diversity of Life and recently I quoted from it. Today I continue to quote some more.The best of science doesn [...] [...] k

I am continuing to read E. O. Wilson’s The Diversity of Life and recently I quoted from it. Today I continue to quote some more.The best of science doesn [...]

]]> By: Vivek S http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/02/23/the-diversity-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-5810 Vivek S Sat, 25 Feb 2006 04:21:25 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/02/23/the-diversity-of-life/#comment-5810 For interested readers, http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/muir/bio.html For interested readers,

http://www.ecotopia.org/ehof/muir/bio.html

]]> By: Suhit Anantula http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/02/23/the-diversity-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-5808 Suhit Anantula Sat, 25 Feb 2006 03:45:26 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/02/23/the-diversity-of-life/#comment-5808 Hi Atanu: Very timely indeed. Here in my job in Australia I have a tough time getting people to understand the environmental damage that is caused by our actions today and how it can affect future generations. Somehow most of the people are not wired to think long term and connect it back to short term. I need to get that book. Thanks, Suhit Hi Atanu:

Very timely indeed. Here in my job in Australia I have a tough time getting people to understand the environmental damage that is caused by our actions today and how it can affect future generations.

Somehow most of the people are not wired to think long term and connect it back to short term.

I need to get that book.

Thanks,
Suhit

]]> By: Parvati http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/02/23/the-diversity-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-5792 Parvati Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:14:24 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2006/02/23/the-diversity-of-life/#comment-5792 #My perennial grouse against Evolution or the Creator has been that even when Man does his best, with the best of intentions, with all the good-will and all the highest intelligence in his store, things can freely get messed up. Very easily. Let alone when he deliberately goes out of his way to consciously destroy and pave complicated paths to total destruction of all species and all of this Earth too. I am totally pessimistic about this -Man in/for this world seem to be an impossibility difficult to resolve :( # Wilson's call might be timely. But it is impossible to heed it. It definitely cannot be done. We do not have the data needed, we donot have the wisdom and intelligence needed to develop a system of anything that will embrace both the near and far futures. :( Verily the time has come for evolution to bring forth the next species in the great scale of beings. Man at the height of the evolutionary toil is a big joke. He either will not, or even if will, he cannot... #My perennial grouse against Evolution or the Creator has been that even when Man does his best, with the best of intentions, with all the good-will and all the highest intelligence in his store, things can freely get messed up. Very easily. Let alone when he deliberately goes out of his way to consciously destroy and pave complicated paths to total destruction of all species and all of this Earth too.
I am totally pessimistic about this -Man in/for this world seem to be an impossibility difficult to resolve :(

# Wilson’s call might be timely. But it is impossible to heed it. It definitely cannot be done. We do not have the data needed, we donot have the wisdom and intelligence needed to develop a system of anything that will embrace both the near and far futures. :(
Verily the time has come for evolution to bring forth the next species in the great scale of beings.
Man at the height of the evolutionary toil is a big joke.
He either will not, or even if will, he cannot…

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