Quotes About Unity

with a bond physical, emotional, and spiritual.

when three hundred voices all joined together, all those voices, in measured cadence, from the gray-haired school nurse's to the kindergarteners', made me feel part of something. It was as if for a moment our minds were one.

in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to be strong in who we are and carry our gifts with conviction, so they can be shared with others.

made me feel part of something. It was as if for a moment our minds were one.

what a community can become when its members understand and share their gifts.

The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective.

But what we see is the power of unity. What happens to one happens to us all. We can starve together or feast together. All flourishing is mutual.

communal generosity

we make a grave error if we try to separate individual well-being from the health of the whole.

It has been said that people of the modern world suffer a great sadness, a "species loneliness"—estrangement from the rest of Creation.

We tend to respond to nature as a part of ourselves, not a stranger or alien available for exploitation.

beginning with where our feet first touch the earth, we send greetings and thanks to all members of the natural world.

map of balance and harmony.

The organic symmetry of forms belongs together; the placement of every leaf, the harmony of shapes speak their message.

Respect one another, support one another, bring your gift to the world and receive the gifts of others, and there will be enough for all.

cooperating, not competing.

and we stand there together, grateful in the rain of blessings.

the Thanksgiving Address was spoken to greet the day: "Let us put our minds together as one and send greetings and thanks to our Mother Earth, who sustains our lives with her many gifts.

alone." Native scholar Greg Cajete has written that in indigenous ways of knowing, we understand a thing only when we understand it with all four aspects of our being: mind, body, emotion, and spirit. I

Stick together, act as one.

Pecans have learned that there is strength in unity

as ecotheologian Thomas Berry has written, "we must say of the universe that it is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

It is said that the people were instructed to stand and offer these words whenever they gathered, no matter how many or how few, before anything else was done. In this ritual, their teachers remind them that every day, "beginning with where our feet first touch the earth, we send greetings and thanks to all members of the natural world.

All flourishing is mutual