Quotes About Interconnectedness

Our emotions resonate with each other - for better and for worse.

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

We need to get involved in things that are important to other countries, just as we expect them to participate in things that are important to us.

The world is moving ahead to become more integrated and connected, where movement of goods and people is becoming easier with each passing day.

And Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.

Our freedom depends on other people's freedom, for our fates are inextricably interwoven with others', especially with those we love.

If we see each problem—be it water shortages, climate change, or poverty—as separate, and approach each separately, the solutions we come up with will be short-term, often opportunistic, "quick fixes" that do nothing to address deeper imbalances.

But you don't have to be very smart to figure that it only takes one infected individual from Vietnam, or Thailand, or Cambodia, to fly into London, New York or Paris, and you've sewn the seed. In this modern age of air travel, we really do live in a global village. And we've created the perfect incubators for breeding and passing on infection, in the buses and planes and underground trains we travel on. We were a human disaster waiting to happen.

In this modern age of air travel, we really live in a global village. and we have created ´the perfect Inkubators for breeding and passing on infection, in the buses and planes and underground trains we travel on. we were a human disaster waiting to happen.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."  Ã¢â'¬â€œ John Muir I'm

First is the recognition that the world's major problems are all interconnected. The global crisis is not neatly divided into separate problems, some social and some environmental. As Pope Francis notes, we have "one complex crisis which is both social and environmental."2 To focus on environmental issues without considering the social, or the social without the environmental, is a failure to grasp the true nature of the crisis.

quantum entanglement," technically defined as a situation in which the quantum state of one particle cannot be described independently of the quantum state of another.

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

The truth is that everything is One, and this of course is not a numerical one.

This is a big reason for the "skeptic" half of my "optimistic skeptic" stance. We live in a world where the actions of one nearly powerless man can have ripple effects around the world—ripples that affect us all to varying degrees.

Unpredictability and predictability coexist uneasily in the intricately interlocking systems that make up our bodies, our societies, and the cosmos. How predictable something is depends on what we are trying to predict, how far into the future, and under what circumstances.

Thus, when we look out at the world, we are nature gazing upon itself.

it is clear that our very survival, even today, depends upon the acts and kindness of so many people.