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Quotation from My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
“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, Chapter VI (Project Gutenberg #32540)
The best-known sentence of the book, often misquoted, from the same meditation on the order of nature.
Citation: "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." — John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, Chapter VI (Project Gutenberg #32540). (id my-first-summer-in-the-sierra-q4)
Portrait: John Muir 1912, Underwood & Underwood, Public domain.
