karl thidemann - the poetic underpinnings of holism
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The Poetic Underpinning of
Holism
Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global WarmingNovember 23, 2014
Karl ThidemannBiodiversity for a Livable Climate
Holism
"The tendency in nature to form wholes that are greater than the sum of the parts through creative evolution”
- Jan Smuts, Holism and Evolution, 1926
Walt Whitman: A Study in the Evolution of Personality
- Jan Smuts, early 1880s while a student at
Cambridge
"When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”- John Muir (1838-1914)
“Two mental constructs will direct human thinking in the next Millennium, relativity and holism.”- Albert Einstein, 1926