“The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological-social-psychological-economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch.”— Donella Meadows
“The new paradigm is a shift from a mechanistic to a holistic and ecological worldview.”— Marilyn Ferguson
“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”— Philip Greenspun
“If you don't understand that you are an ecosystem, you can't have a prayer of handling the complexity of the world.”— Dee Hock