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We live in a very complex world.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

We are a very, very unusual species.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.