John MuirWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Alexander von Humboldt·1845In the great chain of causes and effects, no single fact can be considered in isolation.
Marcus Aurelius·180 ADThat which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once. But can you really forbid a man from harboring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?
Nature, considered rationally, that is to say, submitted to the process of thought, is a unity in diversity of phenomena; a harmony, blending together all created things, however dissimilar in form and attributes; one great whole animated by the breath of life.
The sun and distant stars appeared to mingle in the perfection of the same natural order, and I felt, in the stillness of the tropical night, how much more alive and near to the heavens was this part of the earth.
