Source: The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments (1963), p. 30.
“Yet more complex are the environments we have called turbulent fields.”
In these, dynamic processes, which create significant variances for the component organizations, arise from the field itself.
Source: The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments (1963), p. 30.
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“The aim of swarm power is superior performance in a turbulent environment.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995)
“The next level of causal texturing we have called the disturbed reactive environment.”
It may be compared with Ashby's ultra-stable system or the economists' oligopolic market.
Source: The Causal Texture of Organizational Environments (1963), p. 29.

as translated by Martin H. Krieger "A 1940 letter of André Weil on analogy in mathematics." http://www.ams.org/notices/200503/fea-weil.pdf Notices of the AMS 52, no. 3 (2005) pp. 334–341, quote on p. 340

The Forerunner (1920)
Context: You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise shall lay another shadow before me, and that also shall be gathered at another noon.
Always have we been our own forerunners, and always shall we be. And all that we have gathered and shall gather shall be but seeds for fields yet unploughed. We are the fields and the ploughmen, the gatherers and the gathered.

Source: 1960s-1970s, The Sciences of the Artificial, 1969, p. 53.

“We must have a stable policy environment. No more ATRAS - ABANTE.”
2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero
Source: Images of Organization (1986), p. 39; As cited in as Vivien Martin -(2003) Leading change in health and social care. p. 157: About the organization as organism.

[The threefold way: algebraic structure of symmetry groups and ensembles in quantum mechanics, Jour. Math. Phys., 3, 1962, 1199–1215, https://books.google.com/books?id=nnyNUidX1OMC&pg=PA410] (p. 1200)