Patterns tell us that all is streams, all particles, all waves. Each defines the other...
Finally pattern understanding can only contribute to the current and continuing evolution of new world views based on the essential one-ness of all phenomena. Lovelock (1979) has perhaps best expressed that combination of scientific insights and older tribal beliefs which assert the interdependence of animate and inanimate events. The universe, and this earth, behave as self-regulating and self-generated constructs, very much akin to a single organism or a thought process.

Excerpt from ‘Permaculture, A Designer’s Manual’ by Bill Mollison, Tagari Publications,1988