To make a pond have life, we must have a clear inner feeling of what life in the pond will be like, beyond ecological knowledge.

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• To make a lifelike animal, we have to make the animal out of centers. If the centers are good centers, then the animal starts to get life.quote0.784
  Succinct statement of the central thesis about ornament and animal figures.
• When people think about what is needed to give them surroundings in which life can be lived, they CAN articulate itclaim0.772
  Optimistic statement about the latent capacity of ordinary people to express their deepest needs
• We recognize degrees of life or health in ecological systems, and one meadow feels more alive than another.claim0.770
  Shows that the feeling of life also applies to whole ecosystems.
• The single criterion of whether everything is made of beings correlates accurately with the presence of life in the environment.hypothesis0.770
  Testable hypothesis that the being-character is a reliable indicator of experienced life.
• To make a lifelike animal, we have to make the animal out of centers, not by copying exactly.claim0.770
  Core argument that lifelike quality comes from the field of centers, not from naturalistic representation.
• Feeling is not enough; ecological facts are necessary to make a sustainable fishpond (Sim Van der Ryn's position).claim0.770
• The making of a living world cannot be separated from each person's search for the true self.claim0.768
  The enigmatic conclusion that the most personal, inward search yields the most public, functional harmony.
• Each person is nourished, made more whole, by making something which has life.claim0.768