Gregory Bateson, Ideas and Pattern
[Ideas and Pattern]
...which is in the book I am trying to write
I call my old Friends
Being those patterns which I have met with before
And shall meet with again
And which tell one that things are alive
These patterns exist in the morphogenesis of marigolds,
They exist in the morphogenesis of forests,
They exist in the book I am trying to write,
And in the debates among clusters of people.
They are the necessary outward and visible signs
Of the system being organized.
- Gregory Bateson (from a lecture transcribed by Rollo May, 1976)
...which is in the book I am trying to write
I call my old Friends
Being those patterns which I have met with before
And shall meet with again
And which tell one that things are alive
These patterns exist in the morphogenesis of marigolds,
They exist in the morphogenesis of forests,
They exist in the book I am trying to write,
And in the debates among clusters of people.
They are the necessary outward and visible signs
Of the system being organized.
- Gregory Bateson (from a lecture transcribed by Rollo May, 1976)