Quotes About Interconnectedness

I often conflate the domestic and the cosmic on a daily basis.

I always think that change is like a daisy chain.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

Whatever happens to the great systems of nature will also be what happens to us.

If you look at the developed world, people have multiple devices now. And a phone works with a watch, with a car, with a tablet, with a number of other type of devices.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

It's always been a subtext of our secular optimism that you solve the economic problem, and all other things sort of take care of themselves. Well, we seem to be doing well on the economic side - we are doing very well - and the other things are not solving - they're compounding.

We simply won't be here if we don't take care of the very things that allow us to exist: our associates, customers, suppliers and the planet. That's not up for debate.

What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.

You have to ask yourself: how much does any one person or one family need? And when you start thinking about the universe as an organism, it's important that we, as components of that organism, take care of each other and ourselves.

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.

I'm the kind of person who jumps around when he talks because everything is connected.

Someone should tell the fundamentalists that even Advaita philosophy in Hinduism talks of oneness in all existence.

Dewey consistently argues that any theory of human beings that fails to acknowledge that human beings "are not isolated non-social atoms" is defective, a misleading abstraction of philosophers.

Wilson defines biophilia as "the urge to affiliate with other forms of life.

Though we often see ourselves as separate from nature, humans are also part of that wildness.

isolated patches of wild land are valuable to know, as are isolated people.

food chain - the vitally important system by which matter from soil and air passes through plants and animals and back to soil and air. It is this system upon which all life depends.

What obligation is more binding than to protect the cherished, to defend whoever or whatever cannot defend itself, and to nurture in turn that which has given nourishment? I'm reminded of words written by John Seed, an Australian environmentalist. When he began considering these questions, he believed, "I am protecting the rain forest." But as his thought evolved, he realized, "I am part of the rain forest protecting myself.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, and circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.

I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.