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.

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.