4 John Muir Quotes on Ecology

John Muir quotes on ecology

11. When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.

17. There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

36. 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....

60. 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.