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"Experience working in a state of euphoria and warmth, in just a jumble of light" @erowidrecruiter

"The whole is something other than the sum of its parts" - Kurt Koffka

"All life is bound together by mutual support and interdependence." - Jain declaration of nature, Laxmi Mall Singhvi

"The ecosystem itself is not just a landscape full of plant and animal species; it’s an intricate network of relationships, including those between predators and their prey, between flowering plants and their pollinators, between fruiting plants and the animals that disperse their seeds. Each such relationship constitutes a link between trophic levels."

"My big takeaway from the patterns Ostrom identified is that sustainably managing the commons requires a high degree of context among participants. Most failure outcomes can be traced back to context collapse." [1]

"The interactions between species and their environments is so complex that you can’t take something out, like an entire species, and fully understand the effects of it." [2]

Maybe you should not kill or something if you want to keep fighting evil today. just a thought.

"Don't kill anybody for a few days. See what it feels like."[3]

Alma Hunter is a visiting behavioral ecologist from the Cognition and culture in New Caledonian crows research group. Due to life's exigencies she has a grant to study the corvid population in Detroit. Her praxis is all mixed in with exigencies and her field of study.