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

“Information is a difference that makes a difference.”

— Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind* (1972)

“Nothing has meaning except it be seen as in some sort of context.”

— Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature* (1979)

“The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.”

— Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind* (1972)

“The map is not the territory, and the name is not the thing named.”

— Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind* (1972)

“The pattern which connects is a metapattern. It is a pattern of patterns.”

— Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature* (1979)

“The sacred is certainly related to the beautiful. And both are related to that which is outside the …”

— Gregory Bateson, Angels Fear* (1987)