bateson Quotes

“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.”

“Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.”

“All experience is subjective.”

“Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.”

“We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.”

“In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.”