¶ Environment (1)
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Environment:
"If I am only going to work on the environment and not on the individual, then I said, Number One: What’s the environment? You’ve got to have a definition of the environment. So I have a definition of the environment which I’ve made into a little jingle:
Environment to each must be
All that is, that isn’t me.
Universe in turn must be
All that isn’t me, and me.
"The only difference between Universe and environment is me, the observer, the transforming center where we can really convert information to action.
"The environment is an aggregate of events, not things. Some of the events are of long duration and others are short. And I saw that all the things that could happen to you and me, the events that could affect us, have two origins: the macrocosmic that impinge upon us from outside; or all the events that impinge upon us from inside of us. Whenever I can I always try to make a comprehensive prime definition and then break it into the main parts. So here are the macrocosmic and microcosmic-
¶ Citations
- RBF lecture at Wistar, Inst. EJA transcript p.9, 19 Feb’73
