Within molecular clouds are regions with higher density, where lots of dust and gas cores reside, called clumps. These clumps are the beginning of star formation, if gravity can overcome the high density and force the dust and gas to collapse.
Taoism [is] the way of man's cooperation with the course or trend of the natural world, whose principles we discover in the flow patterns of water, gas, an fire, which are subsequently memorialized or sculptured in those of stone and wood, and, later, in many forms of human art. (From Tao: The Watercourse Way).
The founder of Daoism is believed to have been Laozi, a spiritualist who probably lived in the 4th century. . The religion centers on the Dao (sometimes referred to as the Way or Path), the original force of the cosmos that is an eternal and unchanging principle that governs all the workings of the world.