Meadows — “Once you start listing the elements of a…”

Source: (no source given) — Donella H. Meadows

Book page: meadows-thinking-in-systems

From: Thinking in Systems

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Once you start listing the elements of a system, there is almost no end to the process. You can divide elements into sub-elements and then sub-sub-elements. Pretty soon you lose sight of the system. As the saying goes, you can’t see the forest for the trees.