Quotes About Interconnectedness

Whereas devotees of globalization stress what unifies humankind, traditional realists stress what divides us.

Geography, climate, population determine communications, economy, political organization.

But all We did that day was mingle great and small Footprints in summer dust as if we drew The figure of our being less than two But more than one as yet.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connected to everything else." Then

We are all the consciousness that Mars has ever had.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Words blur at the borders, fuzz into other words, not just in big clouds of connotation around the edges of the word, but right there in the heart of denotation itself.

not in any single system, but in the stack of all systems, the accidental megasystem. It

The world is like a tree, from every leaf you can work back to the roots.

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.

Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.

Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.

Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.

.... all blades of grass, wood, and stone, all things are One.

Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected.

Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

What we do to others, we do to ourselves..