Quotes About Interconnectedness

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.

We are always influenced because we do not live in a vacuum together with our intentions. We are in a relationship with everything that occurs.

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

In an age where everything and everyone is linked through networks of glass and air, no one - no business, organization, government agency, country - is an island. We need to do right by all our stakeholders, and that's how you create value for shareholders. And one thing is for sure - no organization can succeed in a world that is failing.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Mankind cannot suffer anywhere without it bringing sorrow to other hearts

My name be Clark Davis, he hurried on,an it peers to me thet you an' me be in need of one another.

A person who lives only for himself destroys himself.

small changes at a lower level of organization can lead to emergent changes at a higher level. A typical example is the effect of that one truck driver's braking response, in Hitler's nearly fatal traffic accident of 1930, on the lives of a hundred million people who were killed or wounded in World War II.

That's how an Aerolineas Argentinas airplane, stopping in Lima (Peru) in 1991, managed to deliver dozens of cholera-infected people that same day to my city of Los Angeles, over 3,000 miles from Lima. The explosive increase in world travel by Americans, and in immigration to the United States, is turning us into another melting pot—this time, of microbes that we previously dismissed as just causing exotic diseases in far-off countries.

food production was indirectly a prerequisite for the development of guns, germs, and steel.

Segmentar la historia es realizar un ejercicio arbitrario; en rigor, es imposible precisar el origen exacto de un acontecimiento histórico, igual que es imposible precisar su exacto final: todo acontecimiento tiene su origen en un acontecimiento anterior, y éste en otro anterior, y éste en otro anterior, y así hasta el infinito, porque la historia es como la materia y en ella nada se crea ni se destruye: sólo se transforma.

I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.

We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline.

I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.

In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

My right wrist is connected to the left foot. You know, if the left foot doesn't work, the right wrist doesn't work, and that's really the truth.

You can't work on the biceps and ignore the rest of the body, and you can't just say one issue is important when you are looking at how to make the world a better place.

I feel like doing theatre helps my on-camera work and my on-camera work kind of helps my theatre work. So I love to be able to bounce through the mediums.

To be is to be related.