Quotes About Interconnectedness

People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa.

Globalisation is not remotely new; it has been occurring, at differing rates and with differing degrees of scale, for centuries.

All ideas grow out of other ideas.

Humans can no longer ignore nonhumans: they end up haunting the words we use and interrupting everyday talk.

The human race is ill because we have no contact with the lowest level of consciousness.

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

When one person's livelihood changes, it can impact an entire family, then a whole community.

In the end, a lifeform is always a hybrid, a being endowed with some X-power such as being able to breathe for a few seconds out of water. That's how evolution works. Spectrally. We are all mermaids.

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased.

Choosing a single most important development is incredibly hard to do because a lot of different things had to happen before the Internet could be deployed in the fashion it is today.

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

Regardless, one cannot help but marvel that the movement of security prices, the motion of molecules, and the diffusion of heat could all be of the same mathematical species. As will be seen, it is one of many such strange liaisons in nature.

Markets are complex systems. Energy production and distribution are complex systems. Manufacturing and transportation are complex systems. Debt is a complex system. So are viruses. And climate change. And globalization. On and on the list goes. If your project is ambitious and depends on other people and many parts, it is all but certain that your project is embedded in complex systems.

Look for it in the world, and you'll see it everywhere. A brick wall is made of hundreds of bricks. A flock of starlings, which moves as if it were a unitary organism, may be composed of hundreds or thousands of birds. Even our bodies are modular, composed of trillions of cells that are themselves modular. There's an evolutionary reason for this ubiquity: In survival of the fittest, the "fittest" is often a module that is particularly successful in reproducing itself.

All those separate people were a part of my life, strings strung on the frame of Uhtred, and though they were separate they affected one another and together they would make the music of my life.

Tout est en un (Abraham) Tout est amour (Jésus-Christ) Tout est économique (Karl Marx) Tout est sexuel (Sigmund Freud) Tout est relatif (Albert Einstein) Et ensuite ?

Any attempts to essentialist culture into notions of authenticity only succeed in doing the opposite and revealing the interconnectedness of our societies.

Alle pogingen om cultuur terug te brengen tot opvattingen over authenticiteit kunnen alleen het omgekeerde bewerkstelligen en de onderlinge verbondenheid van onze culturen openbaren.

When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I Then am I me and you are you.

Three Treasures: the Buddha, which refers to the world of oneness; the Dharma, which is the world of form; and the Sangha, or the relationship that says the two are really the same thing. We begin such study the simple way, by seeing the world of oneness, of emptiness.

One of the more profound lessons that I've learnt in politics is that everything is related to everything else. Nothing exists in a vacuum.

Every time you name yourself, you name someone else.

You can learn a lot about yourself by getting to know another species. Even humans.