“In Aboriginal worldviews, nothing exists outside of a relationship to something else. There are no isolated variables—every element must be considered in relation to the other elements and the context. Areas of knowledge are integrated, not separated. The relationship between the knower and other knowers, places and senior knowledge-keepers is paramount. It facilitates shared memory and sustainable knowledge systems. An observer does not try to be objective, but is integrated within a sentient system that is observing itself.”

— Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

“I am endlessly fighting a battle with people you know, who want to throw the intellect out and think of knowing with the heart. And whenever you fight that battle, then you sound like an intellectual. When I meet intellectuals, I find myself fighting the opposit battle.”

— Gregory Bateson.

“Change, may be scary. But not changing, is even scarier. Our ability to remain stable is ironically a measure of our flexibility. Not allowing change is the perfect formula for becoming obsolete.”

— Nora Bateson, in “An Ecology of Mind”.

“Those moments of being able to say, ‘I used to think it was like this, but I am starting to think it might be like this.’ That was a way of saying I learnt something.”

— Nora Bateson, in “An Ecology of Mind”.

“A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.”

— Gregory Bateson.