Quotes About Interconnectedness

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as non- human, outside of us, is actually in direct relationship with us.

All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.

You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

Who can determine where one ends and the other begins?

We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are stored in the ecosystems.

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

We now should be able to see cosmos and individual joined in a relationship. We should see that macrocosm and microcosm are, as it were, only far-flung parts of one unified energy center.

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

A few thousand Europeans, no matter how inventive their work in chemicals, or metallurgy, could not create an Industrial Revolution unless they could inspire (or borrow, or even steal) from one another;

A bishop in Gaul could anoint a novitiate with oil from the olive orchards of Greece, bless the event with wine from the vineyards of Italy, and celebrate the sacrament with bread baked with the wheat of Africa while wearing a garment made by Syrian weavers from Chinese silk, all because of the ships.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.

We're all in this game together.

Mitakuye oyasin—we are all related. So

Quando um mosquito se deixa apanhar numa teia, não pode querer mal à aranha.

by choosing two aspects of a subject that appear to be in opposition, each can be examined in light of the other in order to better illuminate the entire subject, as long as one doesn't mistake the system for reality.

As much as possible, it is useful to think of all other beings as being just like me. Every living being strives for happiness. Every being wants to avoid all forms of suffering. They are not just objects or things to be used for our benefit. You know, Mahatma Gandhi once said: 'The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

All is cause and effect. Action and reaction.