Quotes About Interconnectedness

Our world has definitely not learned from past mistakes. Communities have disappeared by mismanagement and by rampant destructions of flora and fauna. "Short time vision" made us irretrievably step out of nature. (Why step out of nature )

in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure

Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.

We must not forget that mankind depends largely on animals, therefore we have a responsibilty for their welfare. If we destroy them - we destroy ourselves.

Attentiveness is hard to sustain, however. That's why backpacking remains an essential practice for me. It requires a consistent mindfulness and self-presence. It demands my keeping an eye on the trail, attending to variations in the terrain and weather patterns, noticing changes in my body as weariness rises or blisters start to form. It necessitates a reading of the entire landscape, learning to dance and flow with the interconnectedness of its details.

But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

The voices and laughter and birds and wind and traffic combined and separated gently.

the reality is that globalization and international economic integration are too far advanced to be undone, except at very great cost.

Humans in the group; computers in the loop

If you refuse to go to the market, how would you know of the existence of others? How would you know of your own existence?

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism,Christianity would not exist

Don't throw stones at your neighbors', if your own windows are glass.

Und es gibt Menschen, die behaupten, Gott hätte das gesamte Universum erschaffen, um sich selbst sehen zu können. So wie wir immer unter Menschen gehen, weil wir uns über andere Menschen definieren. Weil wir nur durch die Art, wie sie sind, erkennen können, wie wir sind.

if he sees his fellow humans as anything more than complicated animals. Not so different from a deer or a wolf, knitted together with the same sinew but in another design.

All stories are in conversation with other stories. —Neil Gaiman

The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.

There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

We're all connected, related, part of one another's lives through the stories we tell ourselves and each other. For good and for bad.

My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time.

Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea.

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.