Quotes About Cooperation

The trees act not as individuals, but somehow as a collective. Exactly how they do this, we don't yet know. But what we see is the power of unity.

Only with severe need did the hyphae curl around the alga; only when the alga was stressed did it welcome the advances. When times are easy and there's plenty to go around, individual species can go it alone. But when conditions are harsh and life is tenuous, it takes a team sworn to reciprocity to keep life going forward.

In a garden, food arises from partnership.

a way that contributes to the good of the whole.

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

Pecans have learned that there is strength in unity

When times are easy and there's plenty to go around, individual species can go it alone. But when conditions are harsh and life is tenuous, it takes a team sworn to reciprocity to keep life going forward. In a world of scarcity, interconnection and mutual aid become critical for survival.

The grasses feed the ants with seeds and the ants feed the grasses with soil. They hand off life to one another. They understand their interconnections; they understand that the life of one is dependent on the life of all. Leaf by leaf, root by root, the trees, the berries, the grasses are joining forces, and so there are birds and deer and bugs that have come to join them. And so the world is made.

Can't any of us stand up to those women?" "Nope," said at least three men in unison.

Life isn't about love and heaven forbid marriage be. It's about getting along.

Anyway, if he can't figure it out himself, why can't he just watch you? Why can't he just do what you do? Why can't he just copy you? Or copy me? If he did for me what I do for him, we'd get along great!

or show any disrespect for male

Our pride is not in fighting but in farming; In the work of our, hands not our blades. Never have we sought war. We come to the Banner of the white pig because it is the banner of our friend, Terran Wanderer.

Nothing we do is ever done entirely alone. There is a part of us in everyone else—you, of all people, should know that. From what I hear, you have been as impetuous as your friend Fflewddur; I have been told, among other things, of a night when you dove head first into a thornbush. And you have certainly felt as sorry for yourself as Gurgi; and, like Doli, striven for the impossible.

I have studied the race of men, Medwyn continued. I have seen that alone you stand as weak reeds by a lake. You must learn to help yourselves, that is true; but you must also learn to help one another.

It's not true. I need all of you. We need each other.

Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence.

Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn interdependence. The front-buttoned jacket was the first sign of independence, the first very visible symbol of growing up.

I will tell you, parenting is a team sport. You need backup, reserves.

If women would stand beside each other, rather than be jealous, it'd help a lot.

The ants are my friends- they're blowing in the wind