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

— John Muir, EWDB

Source: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/john-muir-in-the-new-world/watch-the-full-documentary-film/1823/

Cited to Terry Gifford's EWDB, p. 248; also the opening line of the documentary John Muir in the New World.

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