Quotes About Interconnectedness

As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, we are caught in a "network of mutuality," and that means our collective fate is intertwined. We will thrive or fail together.

If you go back sixty-four generations, to the time of the Romans, the number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately one million trillion, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived!.

As Herman Melville put it: "We are not so much a nation as a world.

Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you.

As Davies puts it, "If everything needs everything else, how did the community of molecules ever arise in the first place?

a little change in the Earth's dynamics can have repercussions beyond our imagining.

It cannot be said too often: all life is one. That is, and I suspect will forever prove to be, the most profound true statement there is.

Every time you breathe, you exhale some 25 sextillion (that's 2.5 x 1022) molecules of oxygen—so many that with a day's breathing you will in all likelihood inhale at least one molecule from the breaths of every person who has ever lived.

The universal tree of life on Earth might actually be a forest.

thus becoming, it seems, his sister-in-law's sister-in-law's husband and raising the possibility that any children of the union would be their own first cousins.

The parts of the universe . . . all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

People think of nature as something separate from us. Nature is a park, or someplace you go on vacation. But nature is all around us. It is part of us. It can help us with our problems. People don't think that but it's true.

They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet. Perhaps their surrounding world, the strangers they met in the street, the wide expanses they saw on their walks, the rooms in which they lived or met, took more delight in their love than they themselves did.

They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees, and the clouds, and the sky over their heads, and the earth under their feet. Perhaps their surrounding world, the strangers they met in the street, the landscapes drawn up for them to see on their walks, the rooms in which they lived and loved, were even more pleased with their love than they were themselves.

El alma del hombre es justamente el hombre presente en los otros hombres.

This is what I call a Distributary World – it was created by ideas flowing out of another world. This world could not have existed unless that other world had existed first. Whether this world is still dependent on

This is what I call a Distributary World – it was created by ideas flowing out of another world. This world could not have existed unless that other world had existed first.

As fire, though one, takes the shape of every object which it consumes, so the Self, though one, takes the shape of every object in which it dwells. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg. 35)

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

The Sioux say: "With all things and in all things, we are relatives.

Como seres humanos, formamos parte de la naturaleza, no estamos por encima de ella. Por

These four quadrants are the physical world, the mental world, the emotional world, and the spiritual world. What most people never realize is that the physical realm is merely a "printout" of the other three.

With each breath in, we breathe in life; each exhalation breathes out connection to all living things. There is no part of our lives that is not part of the sacred. "Re-member.

If you pull a single thread away it is just that—a single thread. I defy any man to read a tapestry from a solitary strand.