“The stream of life is maintained only in continuous flow of matter through all groups of organisms.”

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Source: 1950s, Problems of Life (1952, 1960), p. 52)

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austrian biologist and philosopher 1901–1972

Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels

“The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.”

G. K. Chesterton book The Defendant

"A Defence of Slang"
The Defendant (1901)

“Bubble, bubble, flows the stream
Like an old tune through a dream.”

Maurice Thompson (1844–1901) American novelist

In Haunts of Bass and Bream.

“Flowing along independently of the problems and policy streams is the political stream, composed of such things as public mood, pressure group campaigns, election results, partisan or ideological distributions in Congress, and changes of administration.”

John W. Kingdon (1940) American political scientist

Source: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 7, The Political Stream, p. 145

“To maintain and continue a high volume of flow demanded organizational innovation. It would be achieved only by creating an administrative hierarchy operated by many full-time salaried managers.”

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918–2007) American historian

Source: The Visible Hand (1977), p. 236; Cited in: Best (1990, p. 48).

“The superior in one group is a subordinate in the next group, and so on through the organization.”

Rensis Likert (1903–1981) American statistician

Source: New patterns of management, (1961), p. 105.

“There has to be a constant flow of energy to maintain the organization of the system and to ensure its survival. Equilibrium is another word for death.”

Paul Cilliers (1956–2011) South African philosopher

Source: Complexity and Postmodernism (1998), p. 4; as cited in Richard Andrews et al. (2012, p. 129)

“I know that when the world
surrenders, pallid, to repose,
the murmur of a tranquil stream
through the deep silence flows.”

José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader

I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 275
Simple Verses (1891)

“Group organization is to be the new method in politics, the basis of our future industrial system, the foundation of international order. Group organization will create the new world we are now blindly feeling after, for creative force comes from the group, creative power is evolved through the activity of the group life.”

Mary Parker Follett The New State

Source: The New State, 1918, p. 3

“Freedom is the flow of life/ It is to be part of it/ And to let life flow through you.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu (1957) Indian philosopher

Freedom: Foster It! p. 34.
Freedom: Foster it! (2004)

“The stream of life is maintained only in continuous flow of matter through all groups of organisms.”

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