One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.

The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.

Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

Modern physics has... revealed that every sub-atomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction.

The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.

Appreciation has tremendous power. A beautiful thing is not beautiful until someone appreciates it.

Nice to be born in this universe. Thanks dad and mom.

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.

Time is the stuff life is made of.

Love hard when there is love to be had.

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.

I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb