Quotes About Holism

parts and whole differ because what matters are the interactions between such parts.

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

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.

If the whole is to be Art, the parts must not try to be.

All points in space become equal to all other points in space and it is meaningless to speak of anything as being separate from anything else. Physicists call this property "nonlocality.

Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.

I am in the earth and the earth is in me

For nitrates are not the land, nor phosphates and the length of fiber in the cotton is not the land. Carbon is not a man, nor salt nor water nor calcium. He is all these, but he is much more, much more; and the land is so much more than its analysis.

Heaven is my father and Earth is my mother and even such a small creature as I finds an intimate place in their midst. Therefore that which extends throughout the universe I regard as my body and that which directs the universe I consider as my nature. All people are my brothers and sisters, and all things are my companions.

If you truly feel part of a bigger picture, if you can see yourself in other people and nature, if this you becomes something bigger than the individual you, then you never truly depart the world when you die. You exist as long as life exists. Because the life you feel inside you is part of the same life force that exists in every living thing.