John Muir

This weeks Green Thought is taken from the writings of John Muir (1838 – 1914) a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir

http://www.jmt.org/

Todays is taken from A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf , page 164.

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

Which he later (page 110 in My First Summer in the Sierra) developed into

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