Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. His writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979).
Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, steal me awhile from mine own company.
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, and look on death itself.