Buttimer, AnneAnneButtimer2019-06-062019-06-061985 Marti1985978-90-247-3282-1http://hdl.handle.net/10197/10741Few words so commonplace in everyday vocabulary are so elusive to grasp as “the whole”. Like mirrors, notions of what constitutes a “whole picture” may reflect quite as much of what is in the eye of the beholder as they do about reality. Herein lies a profound dilemma. Once a person, group, or culture articulates its own conception of the whole, immediately antennae on other possible wholes become fixed; receptors to foreign insights become restricted to those categories which are familiar and, therefore, limited.enHuman geographySymbolismWater symbolismIntegrityExistentialismBook Chapter25728010.1007/978-94-010-9251-7https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/