  It is generally believed that quarks being confined inside nucleons should
make their presence felt explictly in nuclei only at higher energies. However
it is shown here that the hole in the centre of $ ^{3}H $, $ ^{3}He $ and $
^{4}He $, the neutron halos in nuclei, the $ \alpha - $ and other clustering
effects in nuclei and the nuclear molecules all basically arise due to the same
underlying quark effects. Also the role of triton clustering in very neutron
rich nuclei is emphasized. These require the concept of hidden colour states
which arise from the confinement ideas of QCD for the multi-quark systems.
