Organic cosmology held all parts of nature mutually suffer together

Evidence

Common to all was the premise that all parts of the cosmos were connected and interrelated in a living unity. From the “affinity of nature” resulted the bonding together of all things through mutual attraction or love. All parts of nature were mutually interdependent and each reflected changes in the rest of the cosmos. The common knitting of the world’s parts implied not only mutual nourishment and growth but also mutual suffering. “When one part suffers, the rest also suffer with it,” wrote Giambattista della Porta (1535–1615). — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 447

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Stoics held the whole earth organism alive and breathing — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 136; Ecological rules asserting themselves across scale reveal hidden order uniting all living systems — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural…, 358; Metaphysical unity with nature justifies exploitation no less than conservation — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 671

Broader Connections

• Metaphysical unity with nature justifies exploitation no less than conservation #complicates (0.80) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 671
• Ecological rules asserting themselves across scale reveal hidden order uniting all living systems #complicates (0.75) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 358