This seems like another potential language for whole to part thinking (gestalt cognitive processing):
Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe wrote in “Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery,” rewilding pays attention “to the emergent properties of interactions between ‘things’ in ecosystems … a move from linear to systems thinking.”
Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
Source: We Need to Rewild the Internet