John Muir Quotes on Ecology
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
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There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
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By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs- now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life....
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Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another- killing and being killed, eating and being eaten, in harmonious proportions and quantities.