Gregory Bateson Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

  Gregory Bateson

  Nature, Thinking, Differences

  "Business needs to learn to see separate challenges as part of the whole" by Giles Hutchins, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2012.

• The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

  Gregory Bateson

  Winning, Environment, Creatures

• No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances.

  Gregory Bateson

  Levels, Matter, Facts

  "Steps to an Ecology of Mind". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1972.

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