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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. -- John Muir It is easy to find something in nature that you have a special interest in, but when you start pulling on just one thing, that is when you find that it is connected to everything else. This quote by John Muir tells us that it is hard to find just one thing in nature you are interested in. It is only when you start pulling on something that you begin to discover how it is connected to everything else.
If you are interested in animals, then when you see animals, you see the world around them, and if you are interested in plants, then when you see plants, you see the world around them. Once again John Muir is telling us that it is hard to find just one thing in nature that we focus on.
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