The Chinese view is fundamentally… oh, you could almost call it anarchical—or, if you don’t like that word, you could call it democratic. A world which is self-governing—not even through a president, but self-governing in every way. A great and colossal anarchism which moves itself in the same way as you and I move our fingers without directing them in the sense that we know exactly what we’re doing and how we move them (we don’t).
It has been suggested that the Western view (nature as a construct) has in some ways done its job, and that from here on we need to explore to a greater degree other views—perhaps the organic view of the Chinese, wherein we get a peculiar harmony of points of view with our own sciences (biology, ecology, and so forth.)