Quotes About Holism

I don't believe in the separation between mankind and nature. Mankind is nature.

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

A man is related to all nature.

Man is not above nature, but in nature.

Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

When we work with nature instead of trying to impose our will, the solution is often found within the problem.

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.

God reveals herself through our relationships not only to other people but also to other creatures and nature.

God is in everything whether I'm mentioning him or not.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

the Many returning to and embracing the One is Good, and is known as wisdom; the One returning to and embracing the Many is Goodness, and is known as compassion.

The cure for the disaster of modernity is to address the dissociation, not attempt to erase the differentiation!

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

Jerry Fodor, a fierce critic of pragmatist approaches to mind and language, puts this sort of criticism in a nutshell when he says: "First the pragmatist theory of concepts, then the theory theory of concepts, then holism, then relativism. So it goes" (Fodor 1994, p. 111).

Each thing is what it is only through everything else.

SYNERGY: those behaviors of whole systems which cannot be predicted by analysis of parts or sub-systems. A term popularized by Buckminster Fuller and roughly equivalent to Holism. Cf. Gestalt in psychology and transaction immediately following:

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything will really do.

Nothing causes more people to deny God, misunderstand God, mistreat others, or abuse Nature more than the illusion of separateness. Nothing. No thing.

Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.

We are greater than the sum of our parts.