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).
1 in Chinese philosophy and religion, esp. in Taoism, the central or organizing principle of the universe, moral life, etc.  the governing creative principle of an art, craft, or other purposeful activity: often with the: the Tao of fashion design.