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	<description>The art, soul, and science of beholding nature</description>
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		<title>Patterns In Nature &#8212; Dynamic Connections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 18:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nature undisturbed is not constant in form, structure, or proportion, but changes at every scale of time and space&#8230;Every ecosystem is a dynamic web always in flux, always in the process of reshaping itself. Whenever we seek to find constancy we discover change. In the long run, ecologies are temporary networks.&#8221; -Kevin Kelly &#8211; &#8220;Out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patterns In Nature &#8211; Killing Cormorants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read a newspaper article in the the &#8220;East Oregonian&#8221; that caused me to defer a planned blog post and focus on yet another attempt by government scientists to ignore the lessons of modern complexity science and attempt to control Nature. This time it appears that there is a fine academic institution involved. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connections In Nature &#8211; A Couple Of Elders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite spots for engaging Nature is Ironwood Forest National Monument near Tucson, Arizona. In the secluded solitude of this wonderful desert, I am alone listening, observing, and meditating without any human interruption. As is my daily practice, I sit outside at dawn anticipating the &#8220;golden hour&#8221; when the Saguaro Cactus glows from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connections In Nature&#8211;We Are All Stardust</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When I look up at the night sky and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than most of those facts is that the Universe is in us .. my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity&#8230; That’s precisely what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connections In Nature&#8211;Why Are They Important?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I begin this series of blogs on connections in Nature, it is appropriate to ask why this is such an important topic. Why should you care enough to spend time reading these blogs? The answer is that connections in nature are the very basis for our existence as living creatures on this earth. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connections In Nature &#8211; Things To Come</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Muir once said “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe”. If there is one unifying principle in all of Nature, it is that all patterns in Nature are connected in some way to other patterns. Nothing exists in and of itself. Everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patterns In Nature &#8211; In Praise Of Rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful unintelligible perfectly innocent  speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself &#8230; The noise of it and the thickness of it walls you off from the rest of the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complexity Ignored</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1950’s, Rachel Carson, in her book “Silent Spring”, sounded a warning siren that was heard around the world. She told the story of a chemical death caused by man’s ignorance as he attempts to control his environment, free himself from pests, artificially enhance the growth of his food supply, and “manage” the ecology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patterns In Time &#8211; Synchrony</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;At the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat: the sound of cycles in sync. It pervades nature at every scale from the nucleus to the cosmos. Every night along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies congregate in the mangroves and flash in unison, without any leader or cue from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patterns In Nature Contain Symmetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because we humans are pattern seeking organisms, symmetry has always fascinated us. We view symmetrical objects such as the regular repeating patterns of ancient pottery, weavings, and tilings as pleasing, proportioned, balanced, and harmonious. Patterns in Nature also possess symmetry in space or in time. Since the description or classification of many patterns in Nature [...]]]></description>
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