When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to
everything else in the Universe.
-- My First Summer in the Sierra , 1911, page 110.
-- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
-- Muir's Law
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop iped and
dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with all other
stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears
as an infinite storm of beauty....