A Quotation

We need to acknowledge the formlessness inherent in the analytic science that divides creatures into organs, cells, and ever smaller parts or particles according to its technological capacities.

I recognize the possibility and existence of this knowledge, even its usefulness, but I also recognize the narrowness of its usefulness and the damage it does. I can see that in a sense it is true, but also that its truth is small and far from complete. 

[...]

We can, to be sure, see parts and so believe in them. But there has always been a higher seeing that informs us that parts, in themselves, are of no worth. Genesis is right: 'It is not good that the man should be alone.' The phrase 'be alone' is a contradiction in terms. A brain alone is a dead brain. A man alone is a dead man.

{Wendell Berry, Paragraphs from a Notebook}