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“Nature appears to be a hierarchy of many grades, corresponding to what the scientist calls ‘levels of magnification.’ Thus when we adjust our lenses to watch the individual cells of an organism we see only particular successes and failures, victories and defeats in what appears to be a ruthless ‘dog-eat-dog’ battle. But when we change the level of magnification to observe the organism as a whole, we see that what was conflict at the lower level is harmony at the higher: that the health, the ongoing life of the organism is precisely the outcome of this microscopic turmoil.”

— Alan Watts, The Two Hands of God