Quotes About Interconnectedness

All swallows all. Life must eat life to survive.

From one bell all the bells toll.

One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.

What I invaded has invaded me.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

Remember, when you connect with another computer, you're connecting to every computer that computer has connected to.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.

I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.

The source of man is in man, and when a man dies, millions of men die in him.

Education is a seamless web: one level of learning relates to every other.

There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.

Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

Life and art are not two different things.

I specialized in transitional environments, and this particular location transitioned several times, meaning that it was home to a complexity of ecosystems.

Would that not be the final humbling of the human condition? That the trees and birds, the fox and the rabbit, the wolf and the deer Ã¢â'¬Â¦ reach a point at which they do not even notice us, as we are transformed.

world is not a zero-sum struggle in which one country's gain is another's loss.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how God holds the kingdom in balance or why he moves a chess piece at a crucial time; we might never see the results of his sovereignty [...] I might just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm a part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.