 | Rebecca Solnit - 2007 - 436 páginas
...had to recognize systems; you had to understand that, in John Muir's famous aphorism, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." When he said that, of course, he wasn't imagining plastic detritus being ingested by seabirds... | |
 | Leslie Van Gelder - 2008 - 188 páginas
...know, so we can separate out the known from the unknown. John Muir's old adage holds true: "When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."2 Our relationship with wilderness triggers the process of differentiation. Differentiation... | |
 | Melannie Svoboda - 2008 - 164 páginas
...with this." Muir was also keenly sensitive to the connectedness of all things, writing, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." He fought to preserve areas from development. The preservation of Yosemite as a national... | |
 | K. Lawson - 2008 - 156 páginas
...environment that, ultimately, protects humanity. Muir's focus continued to be as he stated: "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything in the universe." In a private conversation between mountaineers Galen Rowell and Rheinhold Messner,... | |
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. 
