Full Idea
Nature is an interconnected whole; …you could shift no grain of sand from its spot without thereby, perhaps invisibly to your eyes, changing something in all parts of the immeasurable whole.
Gist of Idea
Nature is wholly interconnected, and the tiniest change affects everything
Source
Johann Fichte (The Vocation of Man [1800], 1)
Book Reference
Fichte,Johann G.: 'The Vocation of Man', ed/tr. Preuss,Peter [Hackett 1987], p.10
A Reaction
Sounds like idealist daydreaming, but might it actually be true with respect to gravity?