Quotes About Interconnectedness

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Each thing is what it is only through everything else.

This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.

People aren't the apex species they think they are. Other creatures-bigger, smaller, slower, faster, older, younger, more powerful-call the shots, make the air, and eat sunlight. Without them, nothing.

Buddha's words: A tree is a wondrous thing that shelters, feeds, and protects all living things. It even offers shade to the axmen who destroy it.

We've learned a little about a few of them, in isolation. But nothing is less isolated or more social than a tree.

While the physical scientists of the seventeenth and eighteenth century asked, "Where are we?" in the universe; and the social scientists of the nineteenth century inquired, "Who are we?" in our relationship to nature and the unconscious; we're now at a time of history when the question is "How are we?" in our interconnectedness and interdependence with life. I

The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. … But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.

but Jill had told me numerous times that for Adrian, everything came back to Rose.

tu salud espiritual está conectada a tu salud física, y ambas están conectadas a tu salud mental y emocional. Un problema en un área afectará a todas las demás.

Life is a conversation between all living things.

Freedom means the right to choose how you want to live and it means the right to participate in governmental and economic decisions. You're right, there is a confusion between political freedom and material benefits. But, to me, freedom means being able to shape your environment, working with others. We're all responsible to each other in my concept of freedom.

When I look far enough inside of you, I'll find me. When I look far enough inside me, I'll find you.

You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. —Alan Watts

We crave coming together and connecting with others because this is what the entire universe has been doing for billions and billions and billions of years.

Holism is when two plus two equals infinity.

It's not me, it's us. If anything happens to us, I want it to be the same thing. All right, he said seriously. From now on, we stick together. I'll handcuff us together, if you'd rather. You won't need to. I'm going to hang on.

And that reminded me--as everything in the universe does--of Finnegans Wake. Now, I'm sure in an educated audience like this, you're all thoroughly familiar with Finnegans Wake, and I don't have to explain its deep structure or its polylinguistic meanings.

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

We tend to separate subjects or areas of knowledge in our heads, whereas in Universe everything is synergetically (holistically) related. In this case, we have separated geometry from evolution, if we are blocked, and that is why we cannot see a rather obvious answer.

Dr. Jack Sarfatti offers a different interpretation. The medium of the Bell interconnectedness, he says, is not consciousness but information. Now, information is very abstract in communication theory: it is the negative reciprocal of entropy, which means roughly that it is the opposite of disorder. It is almost what we call system or organization in daily speech. Information, Sarfatti proposes, is not bound by the same laws as energy and not subject to Einsteinian limits.

I have come to hold that Causality is not composed exclusively of determinist, individualist, or random elements, but from a combination of all three.

Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.

Without the Indian Subcontinent, in other words, there could not have been a Vietnam in any cultural or aesthetic sense.