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Quotes About Interconnectedness

Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.
~ Khalil Gibran
A man is related to all nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
~ Akkineni Nagarjuna
If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature
~ Mollie Beattie
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.
~ Albert Schweitzer
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.
~ Nhat Hanh
Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.
~ Francis Thompson
When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe, then you co operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, help others be themselves.
~ Jane Roberts
It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.
~ Richard P. Feynman
You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.
~ James Balog
Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all.
~ Kathleen Raine
When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.
~ Alan Watts
We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.
~ Alan Watts
Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.
~ Alexis Carrel
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.
~ Paul Tillich
Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.
~ Dalai Lama
Cosmic systems intertwine, astral bodies drip like wine, all of nature ebbs and flows. Comets shoot across the sky, can't explain the reasons why, this is how creation goes.
~ Madonna Ciccone
I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.
~ Daniel Botkin