Quotes About Interconnectedness

There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and European banks. There are plenty of European employees that are employed by U.S. companies, and there are plenty of U.S. employees that are employed by European companies.

In little localized pockets, the universe is capable of building some beautiful complexity.

I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.

'21 Grams' is only one story told by three different points of view, but they are really physically connected - literally, with the heart.

Climate change respects no borders.

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

Anybody who has been in a relationship, raised a family, worked in business or been a systems analyst, you have to look at how the whole system works together. You have to find those opportunities to collaborate.

When you're writing about one community, in a way, you're writing about all communities.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected.

I think we are all connected in this world.

Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.

I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.

If you're talking about a world in which everybody is connected by computers 24 hours a day, that exists right now.

There are colors we can't see, but they're connected to the ones we can, There's a connection between everything.

I'm trying to make connections. That's all we do as human beings on the planet, isn't it? We try to connect.

Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.

Simple idea with powerful consequences: everyone who intersects your life knows something you don't.

We are surrounded by people with accents because America is a nation of immigrants. Beyond that, the people who made your iPhone and the shirt on your back are probably Asians, and we're really not that disconnected from each other; we have very intimate relationships with the world, whether or not we realize it.

To me, just to be surrounded by others, even without a common purpose, is great fulfillment.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.