Quotes About Interconnectedness

I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.

We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

When the old plum tree blooms, the entire world blooms.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.

The trees and plants show respect for each other by the way they live in harmony. This also applies to the animal kingdom.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.

All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

Man is nature as much as the trees.

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, the mountains, the aurora, and the stars.

The trees must breathe so I can breathe.

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.

Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?

Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.

A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.