Quotes About Interconnectedness

but the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

There is something in this Lametrie, a nice slip of our anthropocentrism. Why should Man be at the hub of all analogies? How would plants describe us, I wonder, what classification would they impose upon us? 'Described by a Plant' sounds like a good title to be used later. I feel we're being watched: by rubber plants, sparrow-grass, bonsai, small date palms, Chinese roses, geraniums and lemon trees. They keep an eye on us.

Guilt and fear are so intertwined that they cannot be separated. Love and guilt cannot exist simultaneously any more than love and fear can.

The love in us can unite with the love in others, but two bodies can never become one.

responsibility means respecting ourselves and those around us. In the nature of systems, all our addictive behaviors affect other people.

A culture is kept alive by the interaction of all its parts.

See! the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea: - What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me?

What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.

To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

A person who believes ... that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.

Delenn: The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station, and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff.

This is what happened when you went and made friends. They had to go out and make friends, and then those friends somehow insinuated themselves into your life, or your work. Before you knew it you were hip-deep in people.

All is allegory... Each creature is key to all other creatures.

Te comportas como si todo lo que hago yo fuese parte de la historia de tu vida.

You will not live through this if she does not

Humans: Nature's remedy for an otherwise good time.

and all things tied together all over like rain connecting everybody the world over by chain touch.

I'm my mother's son & my mother is the universe