Quotes About Interconnectedness

Some of the water you just drank passed through the kidneys of Socrates, Genghis Khan, and Joan of Arc. Some of the air you just breathed passed through the lungs of Napoleon, Beethoven, Lincoln, and Billy the Kid.

A fontos, ám ellentmondásos felvetés azt állítja, hogy a Földön található fajok egy kollektív organizmust alkotnak, ami folyamatosan (ám akaratlanul) úgy szabályozza a bolygó atmoszférájának összetételét és klímáját, hogy az biztosítsa az élet feltételeit – és ezzel a folyékony víz jelenlétét.

But really we are one with the rest of nature, fitting neither above nor below, but within.

The cosmic perspective shows us that the very atoms and particles that make up our bodies are spread across the universe itself, making us one and the same.

I began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being

If humans are intelligent, so is the rest of Nature. Native peoples have always said this. The human species shows its decreasing ability to communicate--both internally and externally--by its failure to recognize this intelligence. In this sense, our immune failures are one more example of not having ears (receptors) to hear the voice of Nature with compassion.

In addition, the Greek division of human life into "mind," "body," "emotions," "psyche," and "spirit" underlies the modern Western view. The Semitic languages do not divide reality in this way. They provide multiple words for the subconscious self, all tied to the communal self. They imply a continuum between what we call spirit and body, not a division. We

Nature moves towards balance.

In any relationship, there's multiple moving pieces. Not just one.

I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.

Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.

Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet.

In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

He wondered why a tree grew so close to the same water that would make it fall. Maybe trees were as greedy as people.

Space and time are bound together. Actually, they are more than bound together. Space and time are both manifestations of Tao's consciousness.

I saw and recognized who and what she was by her shadow—by the tubes connecting her to everything. Every step she took, I could feel the channels opening everywhere until she took the one step that finally connected us.

Everything was relative, every thing and being flowed into every other thing and being, and there were way more than three dimensions. Everything, even the things that seemed to stay still, was moving.

It takes lot of butterflies to make a world full of flowers

the beauty of the cosmos derives not only from unity in variety, but also from variety in unity.

But in biological systems there is a deep unity between structure, function, and origin. You cannot make very much progress understanding any one of these unless you are also paying close attention to the other two.

Steven Johnson's Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software.

There are miraculous relationships between beings and things; in this inexhaustible whole, from sun to aphid, no one looks down on anyone else; everyone needs each other. Light

The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises the other; all have need of each other.