#larger

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources. ↗

— Tom Allen

#animal life #area #commerce #energy #energy sources

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#embedded #entity #exist #extent #isolated

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#becomes #build #cannot #coherent #fundamental

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#back #bring #god #larger #lead

An actor should never be larger than the film he's in. ↗

— Christian Bale

#film #larger #never #should #than

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines. ↗

— Michael Behe

#components #larger #machines #many #molecular

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#done #fathers #larger #most #neighbors

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#baseball #culture #intense #larger #much

With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#agreed #anything #anything is possible #challenges #come

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ancestral #another #find #form #however