Missing The Forest For The Trees. The congressman became so involved in the wording of his bill that he couldn't see the forest for the trees; The tree this is speaking of is the philosophical question:
An expression used of someone who is too involved in the details of a problem to look at the situation as a whole: See the forest through the trees (very rare). We don't tend to use proverbs because they necessarily make sense. I think your title says it all, missing the forest for the trees. myself included, so many of us continue to judge individual components(trees), as opposed to the system(forest).
So we need to study the individuals to understand the forest, valentini added.
We are getting walled in, drinking bottled water, and we can't see the forest for the trees. Valentini expects another 1,700 devices to be tested. When you do you will notice there was a whole forest you couldn't see before because you were too close, and focusing on the trees. We don't tend to use proverbs because they necessarily make sense.
