Quotes About Interconnectedness

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.

Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.

In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.

Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

Man was not made for himself alone

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

Men bound hand and foot in the endless chain of cause & effect cannot free each other.

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation.

All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.

Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

The moon quotes the sun, the rivers quote the trees, and trees quote the breeze.

Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.