Quotes About Interconnectedness

God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.

There was no such thing as emptiness in the world. Even in the sky there were no vacant places. Everywhere there was life, visible and invisible, and every object possessed something that would be good for us to have also—even to the very stones.

Which means that living things are involved in an open dialogue with the universe, a free exchange of information and influence that unites all life into one vast organism that is itself part of an even larger dynamic structure. There is no escaping the conclusion that the basic similarity in structure and function are ties that bind all life together and that man, for all his special features, is an integral part of this whole.

Florestas inteiras respiram em uníssono.

Our bodies, minds, and spirits stand in ancient communion with the soil.

As we work to know the life that surrounds us, we stand in a lineage of naturalists — past, present, and even future. We join the "cloud of witnesses" who refuse to let the more-than-human world pass unnoticed.

Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.

Monks realize well that when the consciousness of one person is raised, the whole of humanity is raised; when the quality of life of one improves, all improve. Or, to put it in another, more biblical, way, the increased health and vitality of any one cell vitalizes the whole Body of Christ. 38

Everything affects everything else, and you have to understand that whole web of connections.

M. Mitchell Waldrop

I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends.

The best interests of theology lie not in God in the highest but in the depths of God, something deep within God, even older than God, or deeper than God, and for that very same reason, deep within us, we and God always being intertwined.

Because I know that everything we have is balanced on such a delicate web of incidence and coincidence.

For "full" emotional communication, one person needs to allow his state of mind to be influenced by that of the other.

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

We are the environment.

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

The realisation that our small planet is only one of many worlds gives mankind the perspective it needs to realise sooner that our own world belongs to all its creatures.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.