Quotes About Interconnectedness

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

When we see the relatedness of ourselves to the universe, that we do not live as isolated entities, untouched by what is going on around us, not affecting what is going on around us, when we see through that, that we are interrelated, then we can see that to protect others is to protect ourselves, and to protect ourselves is to protect others.

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

In cyberspace, it is becoming increasingly difficult to uphold security for one's own country by sacrificing that of others.

To cherish others is to cherish ourselves. To cherish ourselves is to cherish others. And in that same way, we relate to the truth. If we support it, if we embrace it, if we uphold it, we will be embraced by it, we will be supported and upheld by it.

Each creature both great and small has evolved after millions of years of evolution serving an integrated and important part in the ecological balance of our Earth. Upset the balance and the consequences are disastrous.

Assurance, action, and evidence influence each other in an ongoing process. This helix is like a coil, and as it spirals upward it expands and widens. These three elements of faith - assurance, action, and evidence - are not separate and discrete; rather, they are interrelated and continuous and cycle upward.

I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging ideas and practices is self-evidently one of the most productive, fascinating aspects of modern urban life.

Urban living is an intersection of business and personal life.

A single leaf working alone provides no shade.

If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.

When people go within and connect with themselves, they realize they are connected to the universe and they are connected to all living things.

The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

We are learning that the earth functions like an invisible organism. We are the various cells of one living being. Those who work to save the earth are its antibodies.

When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.

While we're all very dependent on technology, it doesn't always work.

Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro.

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

Once electricity and petrol and facilities and food stop, society stops. It's crazy.

The more profit we make, the more stores we can open, the more donations we can make to our community, the more responsible citizens we can be for the environment. It's all interactive. It's all connected together. There's no separation.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.