Quotes About Interconnectedness

I say let all the earth be alive and overwhelmingly so. Let the sky be pressed to bursting with wings, beaks, pumping hearts, and driving muscles. Let it be noisy. Let it make a mess. Then let me find my allotted space. Let me feel how I bump up against every other living thing on this earth. Let me learn to spin.

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

Pasaulis sutvarkytas taip, kad aš pats atsakau ir už graž? or?, ir už audr? - ir ne vien savyje, bet aplink save.

We never stand alone—for we are all woven into one—land, sky, rock, sand, animals—man is only a part of the whole.

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

I love that Amazon has this incredibly unique, diplomatic process where people's voices are heard, and we're using this great interconnectedness we have, via the Internet, to weigh in and to have a say in what we want to see and what we don't.

Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.

In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.

A Hindu is interested in the welfare of all: not merely humans, but all living beings.

We no longer live in an era in which foreign policymakers can claim to serve their nations' interests treating what happens to people in other countries as an afterthought... What happens to people in other countries matters. It matters to the welfare of our own nations and our own citizens.

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

A siloed approach between suppliers doesn't really help hospitals well enough.

We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the well-being of any other country.

The success of Boston's economy is intertwined with the health and well-being of every neighborhood.

I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.

We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.

Everything that the West is today is predominantly because of Africa.

I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.