Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.

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.

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

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

Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic.

Tonight she was just plain Liz, nobody extraordinary, paranormal, or otherwise.Tomorrow, that would change.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.

I am the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.

Never worry about missing a field goal. Just blame the holder and think about making the next one.

Violence stops thought. Hence its popularity as a pain-killer.