Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.