Quotes About Interconnectedness

Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications like "optics" or "thermodynamics" are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeing countless intersections.

The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do.

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

'Humankind' is an attempt to think the human species without Nature and without humanity.

Globalization is very destructive to our species.

No species is more important than others.

When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.

By having Spider-Man exist in the same universe as the Guardians of the Galaxy... C'mon, that opens up so many possibilities!

The world is part of us, and we are part of the world. Even through the smallest acts, we can demonstrate that. I believe in the human spirit, in the kindness in all of us, and I am hopeful for this world.

There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly.

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

The body is one integrated system, not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties. The medicine of the future connects everything.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.