The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.
Gregory BatesonOfficial 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.
Gregory BatesonThe rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
Gregory BatesonThe map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.
Gregory Bateson