HEARTBEAT

To describe the relationships between corresponding parts, the deeper symmetries, which are concealed by asymmetries on the surface, the theorist of evolution, Gregory Bateson, once talked about "the pattern which connects". He writes:"What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all the four of them to me? And me to you? And all the six of us to the amoeba in one direction and to the backward schizophrenic in another?"

This quate is from the book Patterns in design, Art and Architecture.

Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (New York/Dutton:1979),p.8.