Quotes About Interconnectedness

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.

How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.

Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.

All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don't. It's the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)

The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

All of music is connected, but a lot of people don't see it that way

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

It would be difficult to do art without music (music subsidises the art).

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we've lost our connection to ourselves.

When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

In nature nothing exists alone.

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.