"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
— John Muir

January 1, 1970

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These are paraphrases of Muir's quote from My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) - the actual quote is listed above: "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." See Sierra Club explanation.