Life is wholeness; life springs from wholeness.

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• Life comes from the wholeness, from the system of centers.quote0.865
  Summarizes the central thesis of the chapter.
• Life comes directly from the wholeness; the degree of life arises from the way centers in the wholeness cohere to form a unity.claim0.853
  The fundamental thesis of the book: life is an emergent property of the structure of centers.
• Life is structural, a quality that comes about because of the existence of a discernible structure in the wholeness.claim0.827
  The central thesis of the chapter, setting up the explanation of how life emerges.
• When I make something which has wholeness or life, I become more alive; when I make something dead, I become less alive.claim0.822
• Wholeness is a neutral structure that simply exists; its degree of life or beauty follows from its internal cohesion without reference to opinion.claim0.818
  Posits that wholeness provides an objective foundation for aesthetics.
• Life is a pervasive quality that includes ordinary biological life but also a kind of life in stones, concrete, and wood posts.claim0.808
  Summarizes the chapter’s view that life exists in the very materials of a building.
• Life is a thing which can only be reached by humanness, by the personal, by the individual, childish temperament.claim0.807
• The life which seems best in our world comes from efforts that are uncensored, natural and straightforward, from impulses close to our emotions and joy.claim0.806
  Alexander's opening assertion about the character of true modern life.