Feeling of finally finding a citation I've been looking for for SEVEN YEARS! Hunting down a thing I heard about in a lecture 20+ years ago from a historian now, alas, no longer with us. But I found it! And now I'm so giddy I can't think about anything else! (No I won't say what it was -- spoilers)

@adapalmer I'm no scholar (or, at best, a poor scholar in the parlance of the Tao Te Ching) but I understand something close to that feeling.

I once read in a Gregory Bateson book (Ecology of Mind) at the beginning bit the following:

"Information is the ultimate amphibian"

The idea stuck with me.

Years later I tried to find the source and I couldn't find *that* copy, nor did Google find it.

Still haven't.

Got the domain name and made a graphic though.

http://www.ultimateamphibian.com/

Ultimate Amphibian