John Muir once boiled this principle down: “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”5 Creation is like a piece of clothing that, if we pull a string, will keep pulling, pulling, and pulling until the entire thing comes undone. This is the principle of all ecology at its core.6 Perhaps my favorite definition of ecology comes from G. Tyler Miller, who says it means everyone and everything is downwind from everyone and everything else.7 That is, nothing is isolated.
