Quotes About Interconnectedness

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

Subconsciously, we all want to be nebula... In the end, we're all connected. We're all going to become one cloud of light whether you like it or not. We're all made of the same star dust.

OUR MOTHER EARTH CAN LIVE WITHOUT US BUT WE CANT LIVE WITHOUT HER

If Enlightenment was the salad, Entanglement is the soup

The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Quien busque la supervivencia asesinando la humanidad de otro ser humano sólo consigue sobrevivir a la muerte de su propia humanidad.

las ciudades se han convertido en el basurero de los problemas engendrados globalmente.

No longer can democracy and freedom be fully and truly secure in one country, or even in a group of countries; their defence in a world saturated with injustice and inhabited by billions of humans denied human dignity will inevitably corrupt the very values they are meant to defend.

intellections have a use, don't think they don't: if the vine couldn't find a natural tree, what would become of it? if structure without life is meaningless, so is life without structure: we're going to make a dense, tangled trellis so lovely & complicated that every kind of variety will find a place in it or on it: you just be surprised: & forgive us: who mean song direct & fierce:

For life is a seamless web. It connects us not merely with one another, but with all that is sentient; with all that shares its miracle of birth and feeling and death.

How this is possible is, first, by being, literally, several in a single body. "We are twelve in my body. We are packed like sardines." In other words, the being that I am exists each time in several modes—or, let us say, several beings, which, although sometimes mutually exclusive, are nevertheless inside one another.

The experience of the world broadens with the reality of other creatures made vivid within it.

As a species, all the things we do are unique, and are also seen all over the natural world.

Comprenderemos que sin la ayuda y la cooperación de muchos miles de personas, el individuo más insignificante d un país civilizado no podría disponer de las comodidades que tiene, comodidades que solemos suponer equivocadamente que son fáciles y sencillas de conseguir.

There is a beehive under every pot of honey