Quotes About Interconnectedness

Extraordinary, how single lives just fold into the whole mess, over and over again, all caught up in the greater swirl. Spinning round and round, and ever downward, it seems. Ever downward. Fools, all of us, to think we can swim clear of that current.

Fuck one thing and it fucks everything else. The

pack and a disorganized band of fringe oscillators. When the system was self-synchronizing, Winfree found that no oscillator was indispensable. There was no boss. Any oscillator could be removed and the process would still work.

Our analysis revealed that whether the nodes in the network are neurons or computers, people or power plants, everyone is connected to everyone else by a short chain of intermediaries. In other words, the "small world" phenomenon is much more than a curiosity of human social life: It's a unifying feature of diverse networks found in nature and technology.

On matters of transgression in the social sphere, Zen's deficiencies cannot be blamed on an indifferent or unresponsive attitude, for in some cases it has been actively pursuing a reprehensible agenda. Perhaps part of the problem is Zen's apparent lack of a sense of good versus evil on a metaphysical level in stressing that all phenomena are interconnected and interpenetrating.

We are deciphering how all known objects—from atoms to galaxies, from cells to brains, from people to society—are interrelated. For the more we examine nature, the more everything seems related to everything else.

We are deciphering how all known objects - form atoms to galaxies, from cells to brains, from people to society - are interrelated. For the more we examine nature, the more everything seems related to everything else.

The more we know about science, the more we know culture and cosmos are connected, to such an extent that we can now see that the cosmos is inextricably intertwined with human destiny, both in the short term and the long-term, impinging on (and arguably essential to) questions normally reserved for religion and philosophy.

It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other.

It was not Gilda and a racquet being used reflexively to some purpose. It was not Gilda using a racquet. It was one thing, maybe you could call it a Gilda-racquet-court-net-game-situation-two-other-players-wind-sunshine object. But there was only one thing there. To seperate us out would be to miss the reality.

our kids need to understand that they are not above, outside, or apart from their physical environment—they are completely intertwined with it, and it with them.

perfect in itself, somehow connected with every other fragment, so that the whole was greater than the sum of its parts.

Our intelligence resides not in individual brains but in the collective mind. To function, individuals rely not only on knowledge stored within our skulls but also on knowledge stored elsewhere: in our bodies, in the environment, and especially in other people.

science isn't about the things but about the relationships among the things.

Where I bleed, he bleeds. As he wounded me, he wounded himself.

Perceiving interconnectedness between all living things, the ancient Taps believed that every individual was somehow linked through the abstract country of the soulscape.

The twins were joined through him. He was part of their lovemaking. In their hearts, they did not embrace each other, but him.

The biosphere explodes in diversity, creating more and more cracks in the floor of Darwin's nature until the cracks, ever expanding, become the very floor of nature, and nature herself.

We humans are a minority of giants stumbling around in the world of little things.

We invite you, in reading this book, to cast away your preconceptions and enter, with us, a magical world where all things are connected to you, and you are connected to all things.

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Essentially, all life on the planet is coming from the earth. Whether it is a human being or an earthworm, it is the same soil.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.