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The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community QUOTES

1 " This state of affairs is not inevitable. Humans were able to employ science and law to transform common holdings into a commodity and then into capital; we also have the ability to reverse this path, transforming some of our now overabundant capital into renewed commons. "

― Fritjof Capra , The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

2 " Leonardo did not pursue science and engineering in order to dominate nature, as Francis Bacon would advocate a century later, but always tried to learn as much as possible from nature. He was in awe of the beauty he saw in the complexity of natural forms, patterns, and processes, and aware that nature’s ingenuity was far superior to human design. Accordingly, he often used natural processes and structures as models for his own designs. "

― Fritjof Capra , The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

3 " This exceptional ability to interconnect observations and ideas from different disciplines lies at the very heart of Leonardo’s approach to learning and research. "

― Fritjof Capra , The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

4 " This segregation is confirmed by the common stereotypes of these two disciplines and their representatives. While scientists are perceived as absentminded, casually dressed individuals who live in a refined world of abstract theory with little practical reality, lawyers are usually perceived as formally dressed people who are practically oriented, concentrating mainly on trivialities (such as negotiating their retaining fee) and engaging professionally in all sorts of nitty-gritty social intercourse—the kind of things that normal people, although worried by them, would rather not have to deal with themselves. "

― Fritjof Capra , The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community