A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

“Holism, wholeness, healing, and holiness are all derived from the same root in Old English: haelen, to “make whole.”

— Elaine R. Ferguson

“A well-made turtleneck sweater will keep you warm, cozy, and protected from the cold. Your gums do the same thing for your teeth.”

— Nadine Artemis

“It must be clear to those who look below the surface of things that far-reaching changes in our fundamental ideas and attitudes are setting…

— Hon J.C. Smuts

When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to…

— Eugene Odum

“Teeth are alive, and given the proper environment, they can regenerate; this is why internal factors that nourish the teeth are so important.”

— Nadine Artemis

“Brave out-of-the-box thinkers are transforming and renewing the conventional practice of dentistry. While most of their work is still not mainstream, these dentists and…

— Nadine Artemis

To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality…

— Greg Lynn

Action has meaning only in relationship and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

A good album should be more than the sum of its parts.

— Ian Rankin

The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than…

— Jan Smuts

“Transposed to the social sphere, holism becomes apparent as a rebalancing of values and attitudes that have become distorted -- moving from aggressive to…

— Alex Gerber Jr

“The environment is not an "other" to us. It is not a collection of things that we encounter. Rather, it is part of our…

— George Lakoff

“Historically, holism had been a break from the reductionist methods of science. Holism (...) is a way of viewing the universe as a web…

— David Zindell

General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that…

— Marilyn Ferguson

“Humanity's "progress of knowledge" and the "evolution of consciousness" have too often been characterized as if our task were simply to ascend a very…

— Richard Tarnas