The wave itself — the system which in present-day science we have considered as a purely mechanical hydrodynamical system of moving water — has some degree of life.

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• "What I mean is that the wave itself — the system which in present-day science we have considered as a purely mechanical hydrodynamical system of moving water — has some degree of life"quote0.957
  Verbatim quote from Alexander (2002, p.31) showing his expansive concept of life beyond biology.
• A wave breaking on the shore has some degree of life, not merely because of organisms within it, but the wave itself as a mechanical system has life.claim0.857
  Key example to show that life extends beyond organisms to inanimate dynamic systems.
• The living organism seems to be a macroscopic system which in part of its behaviour approaches that purely mechanical (as contrasted with thermodynamical) conduct to which all systems tend as the temperature approaches absolute zero.claim0.804
  Schrödinger's analogy highlighting that life maintains order akin to a system at very low temperature.
• Natural phenomena such as wild waves and migrating geese are personal in the same sense as living buildings — they are deeply whole, deeply alive, and therefore deeply personalclaim0.779
  Extends the personal quality beyond artifacts to untouched nature
• Life is the most general case, with physics being the special case, and life involves at least one currently unknown fundamental principle.claim0.767
  Attributed to Rosen and endorsed as motivating the search for new theoretical principles like representation.
• Life is not a mechanical property but an inherent attribute of space itself, analogous to Maxwell's electromagnetic field creating light.claim0.767
  Proposition 1 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the most fundamental metaphysical claim of the theory.
• Present-day physics is completely governed by a system of differential equations... this entire rich system is now completely contained in a single theorem, the principle of least action.quote0.767
  Planck's statement cited to establish the generality and indispensability of least action before Alexander argues it is still insufficient
• Life is not a limited mechanical concept; it is a quality which inheres in space itself and applies to every physical structure of any kind.claim0.762
  The fundamental thesis of the chapter and the book, redefining life as a universal spatial quality.