gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) (01/26/84)
"The earth is to be seen neither as an ecosystem to be preserved unchanged nor as a quarry to be exploited for selfish and short-range economic reasons but as a garden to be cultivated for the development of its own potentialities of the human adventure. The goal of this relationship is not the maintenance of the status quo, but the emergence of new phenomena and new values. Millenia of experience show that by entering into a symbiotic relationship with nature humankind can invent and generate futures not predictable from the deter- ministic order of things, and thus can engage in a continuous process of creation" -- Rene Dubos, "Symbiosis between earth and humankind", Science, 1976. Thank you for your attention. -- Gordon A. Moffett decvax!decwrl!amd70!proper!gam hplabs!intelca!proper!gam