Quotes About Interconnectedness

If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

Man is not above nature, but in nature.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature.

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.

We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.

We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

We monsters are necessary to nature also.

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

The opposite of nature is impossible.

All is One (Nature, God)

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception