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Quotes About Interconnectedness

We are rooted to the air through our lungs and to the soil through our stomachs. We are walking trees and floating plants.
~ John Burroughs
In our forests part divine and makes her heart palpitate wild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound!
~ John Cage
I have attempted briefly here to set forth a view of the arts which does not separate them from the rest of life, but rather confuses the difference between Art and Life.
~ John Cage
Your freedom and mine cannot be seperated
~ John Carlin
The economy is an organic whole, not just a collection of individual parts. If there is a big disruption in one industry, it will inevitably spill over into others
~ John Cassidy
What it is," Violet said when John, hands behind his back, came up to her, "is many houses, isn't it?" "Many houses," he said, smiling. "Every one for you.
~ John Crowley
Ahead the sedgy, flower-starred meadow rose up to a knoll, and there grew an oak tree and a thorn together, in deep embrace, inseparable. She
~ John Crowley
There is no gap between us and the process.
~ John Daido Loori
When we realize the ground of being, we take responsibility directly, because what we realize is that what we do and what happens to us are the same thing.
~ John Daido Loori
Desmond Tutu: "God, without us, will not; as we, without God cannot.")
~ John Dominic Crossan
No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
~ John Donne
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
~ John Donne
No man is an island, no man stands alone . . . Each man's death diminishes me, because I am involved with mankind . . .
~ John Donne
Any man's death diminishes me, for I am involved with mankind.
~ John Donne
No man is an island entirely of itself. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.
~ John Donne
You are earth; he whom you tread upon is no less, and he that treads upon you is no more.
~ John Donne
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown; Let us possess one world; each hath one, and is one. My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres Without sharp north, without declining west?
~ John Donne
There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else.
~ Chuck Hillig
We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.
~ Dalai Lama
The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects.
~ Fritjof Capra
Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.
~ Gregory Bateson
We are all an integral part of the chain of life.
~ Jacque Fresco
My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.
~ Lyall Watson