there is no closed figure in nature

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The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of ‘independent existence.’ There is no such mode of existence; every entity is only to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.


—Alfred North Whitehead
Essays in Science and Philosophy

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There is no closed figure in nature. 

Every shape participates with another. 

No one thing is independent of another,
and one thing rhymes with another,
and light gives them shape.


—Henri Cartier-Bresson

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We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness 

and fish for fallen light with patience. 

—Pablo Neruda

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