Since human beings are the first creatures on Earth who have managed to create non-living structure, the need to focus on non-living processes is new. Indeed, we have only even seen non-living structure and non-living process for the first time in relatively recent decades.
— Alexander, Christopher. The Nature of Order, an Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Book Two: The Process of Creating Life. 1980. Berkeley, California: The Center for Environmental Structure, 2002.
