Quotes About Interconnectedness

Deep ecology does not see the world as a collection of isolated objects but rather as a network of phenomena that are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent. It recognizes the intrinsic value of all living beings and views humans—in the celebrated words attributed to Chief Seattle—as just one particular strand in the web of life.

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

Throughout the living world, we find living systems nesting within other living systems.

A love that can be found within everything. And as this world turns and changes, the bits and scraps of my love that find their homes around me... There. See? One piece has just found its place in you. Just like that.

At this point in our planetary history, if we are simply to survive, we need to follow the law of unity between humanity and nature. If we keep trying to break the laws of nature, they will eventually break us.

Todo lo que Dios creó tiene un diseño unitario, por lo que cada parte influye sobre el conjunto y cada sombra tiene una repercusión de oscuridad sobre todo el resto.

There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.

No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World Inside

No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World

life is not just from within, it extends all around you, whether you wish it to or not.

Just like a plant or an animal a human being is an element of nature. So, save the mother-nature to save yourself; we are not different or above from her.

What if religion was each other? If our practice was our life? If prayer was our words? What if the temple was the Earth? If forests were our church? If holy water - the rivers, lakes, and oceans? What if meditation was our relationships? If the Teacher was life? If wisdom was knowledge? If love was the center of our being.

We can never do merely one thing.

We are all connected. The living to the non-living, as the non-living to the living. All things in all directions in all times. It is only in the physical dimension that we have limitations. (The membrane between us is thinner than you think.)

Mindfulness isn't necessarily about awakening within. Awakening wisdom teaches me how my exterior and interior life are not separate. What happens in the world is happening within me, and vice versa.

But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world.

What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, each soul is responsible for the world.

Ko se premaknete v plast svoje resni?nosti, , se premaknete na podro?je, ki vklju?uje v vaše življenje tudi druge. ?eprav je to tudi osebno, se za?enjate odmikati iz svoje zasebnosti.

You change when you expand your awareness to include the well-being of others.

When you choose your thoughts, your words, and your actions, choose wisely and compassionately. You are part of one Family, one Mind, one Heart, one Life, one Universe. Give all that you can to it, and you will receive more in return than you can imagine.

We were taught that the organism that is best able to control both its environment and all the other organisms in its environment is the most evolved. 'Survival of the fittest'. But our deeper understanding tells us that a truly evolved being is one that values others more than it values itself, and that values love more than it values the physical world and what is in it.

us to comprehend, for we are ourselves part of wyrd and cannot stand back to observe it as if it were a separate force.