Quotes About Holism

Our interests in life are not always served by viewing people and things as collections of atoms—but this doesn't negate the truth or utility of physics.

We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

The Animist is, in other words, all those who see an equivalence between all forms of life or who can see life where others would see the lack of life. The theoretical

We take as building material relations and relata. The relations unite the relata; the relata are the meeting-points of the relations. The one is unthinkable apart from the other. I do not think that a more general starting-point of structure could be conceived.

there isn't really any such thing as a subject and an object, there is only oneness.

God is in everything and everybody.

He wrote: A religion to be true must include everything from the amoeba to the milky way. Nothing must be excluded from our view and purview for any faith to be true.

Once key ideas from idea-spaces that otherwise had little contact with one another were connected, they began, quasi-autonomously, to make new sense in terms of one another, leading to the emergence of a whole that was more than the sum of its parts.

When one loads hay onto a wagon, it can be any amount, even a couple of pitchforkfuls. But when one loads the wagon with hay, the implication is that the wagon is full.36 This subtle difference, which linguists call the holism effect, can be seen with the other locative verbs:

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

Every life-form, no matter how small, contains the outside universe within it's internal universe.

Je ne peux pas accepter de regarder le ciel sans la terre, ni la terre sans le ciel.

Nothing can be separated from everything else.

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

Throughout the living world, we find living systems nesting within other living systems.

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

science isn't about the things but about the relationships among the things.

We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.

In general, then, a universal characteristic of a complex system is that the whole is greater than, and often significantly different from, the simple linear sum of its parts.

as the sum becomes increasingly different from the parts.

1) how a collection of units doesn't behave like a sum of units