Gregory Bateson Quotes

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the temperature falls one degree. We push a button, and Taylor Swift sings for us. It's the opposite in the wilderness, which teaches us constantly that we are not lords of the universe but rather building blocks of it.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

Everyone lives downstream from someone else.

Nature is actually the greatest democracy in the world.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

The ocean is tired. It's throwing back at us what we're throwing in there.

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

We are all part of the ecosystem.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

When a big tree falls, the ground shakes

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.

The ocean is the lifeblood of our world.

The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

There is no solitude in nature.

A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.

Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.

We are creatures like everything else in our world.