The Poetic Underpinning of

Holism

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Holism

"The tendency in nature to form wholes that are greater than the sum of the parts through creative evolution”

- Jan Smuts, Holism and Evolution, 1926

Walt Whitman: A Study in the Evolution of Personality

- Jan Smuts, early 1880s while a student at

Cambridge

"When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”- John Muir (1838-1914)

“Two mental constructs will direct human thinking in the next Millennium, relativity and holism.”- Albert Einstein, 1926

To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

- William Blake