I don’t think the systems way of seeing is better than the reductionist way of thinking. I think it’s complementary, and therefore revealing. You can see some things through the lens of the human eye, other things through the lens of a microscope, others through the lens of a telescope, and still others through the lens of systems theory.

To be a participant in a complex system is to desire to be both lost and found in the interrelationships between people, nature, and ideas.