Quotes About Interconnectedness

humans are the species that can most affect other species.

The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

In nature there is no alienation. Everything belongs.

I don't believe in psychology, which says everything you do is because of yourself. That is so untrue. We are social animals, and everything we do is because of other people, because we love them, or because we don't.

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

the form of citizen activism, global markets, and media scrutiny

Life made its pattern around and beneath and through her.

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

your opponent is not really your opponent because you and your opponent become one.

As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you.

I believe that even though each person has an individual and unique self, the self means nothing outside the context of community or meaningful contact with other people.

In the beginning of life, we need others to survive. At the end of life, we need others to survive. In between, we need others as well.

saving all beings knowing full well that there is no one to save.

The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.

Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.

All is in the land and the land reflects in all.

Tell them that we are all one living body that cannot be separated from nature.

our personal behavior often has consequences for others.

Human" is a kind of midway creature, reflecting God into the world, and reflecting the world back to God.

Whatever is dependently co-arisen That is explained to be emptiness. That, being a dependent designation Is itself the Middle Way.

Pull a thread here and you'll find it's attached to the rest of the world.