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What does it mean?
Everything connects to everything else in space and time. Any single point reflects the whole world around it.
In plain terms
Every place holds a piece of the whole universe.
What can you take from it?
See how local things connect to the bigger picture.

Where it applies

  • system thinking
  • ecology
  • network analysis

Putting it to work

  • mapping relationships
  • studying local impacts

Questions to consider

  • How does your immediate context shape the whole?

Another view

Not all connections are strong enough to matter practically.

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