Organizations need to undergo fundamental changes, both in order to adapt to the new business environment and to become ecologically sustainable.

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.

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.

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

You are a soldier. A fighter. And now you must fight. Not for the emperor, not for France . . . but for yourself.

Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.

Yep.” Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter himself, so far, as to seriously think there is no God.

It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.

You never realize what the aftereffect of your activities, however in the event that you don't do anything, obviously there will be no outcome.

I'll tell you my routine - it's really exciting. I feed, I burp, I change diapers, I pump. And then I have a tiny window of time to myself.

Wake up in the morning with a specific goal to look forward to.

What's funny about my group of friends is that none of us ever went to the same school. None of us lived in the same part of town.

The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.