“To grow or not to grow is neither a well-defined nor a relevant question until the location, sense, and subject of growing and the growth process itself are defined”

Reading Shadows, p. 28.
A History of Reading (1996)

Part II, Chapter VIII,Ultimate Uses of the Stored Units, p. 103
Storage and Stability (1937)

Section 4 : Moral Ideals
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: The moral ideal would embrace the whole of life. In its sight nothing is petty or indifferent. It touches the veriest trifles and turns them into shining gold. We are royal by virtue of it, and like the kings in the fairy tale, we may never lay aside our crowns.
The moral order never is, but is ever becoming. It grows with our growth.

The Structure of Information Retrieval Systems (1959)

Thinking in Systems: A Primer (2008), Appendix (summary)

Blessings (1998)
Context: The growth of one blesses all. I am committed to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.

Source: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 1 (first line)

Translation J. L. Austin (Oxford, 1950) as quoted by Stephen Toulmin, Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts (1972) Vol. 1, p. 56.
Grundgesetze der Arithmetik, 1893 and 1903

Source: Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis