Quotes About Interconnectedness

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.

Globalization is a fact of economic life

Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you...

There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

Mastery of life is not a question of control, but of finding a balance between human and being...Human is form. Being is formless. Human and Being are not separate but interwoven.

We are the living planet!

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

It's rare in life to look at all the people around you and realize that they're all invested in what you're doing.

Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies

You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

Live in fragments no longer, only connect.

Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner.

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

In our industrial and social system the interests of all men are so closely intertwined that in the immense majority of cases a straight-dealing man who by his efficiency, by his ingenuity and industry, benefits himself must also benefit others.

We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff and still! That I could speak,—and you perforce be dumb! I think our heart-strings were, like warp and woof In some firm fabric, woven in and out; Your golden filaments in fair design Across my duller fibre.

All living things on earth are kindred.

Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization.

We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred

All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were to true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.