“The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence.”

There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running,

Animate and inanimate they all develop in space and in time such that they optimize the flow of material.

In fact, animal locomotion is no different than other flows

The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance.

Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.

They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.

Flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity , of things one is not in quest of.

Flow systems have two basic features (properties).

Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.

We moralize among ruins.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.

The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.

I used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.