Quotes About Interconnectedness

Henry David Thoreau, who wrote, Two sturdy oaks I mean, which side by side, Withstand the winter's storm, And spite of wind and tide, Grow up the meadow's pride, For both are strong Above they barely touch, but undermined Down to their deepest source . . . Admiring you shall find Their roots are intertwined Insep'rably.[53]

It's very important for actors to feel like a part of the puzzle and not the puzzle itself.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.

I believe that we will benefit more by globalisation.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

I rarely write about magic in the waving wands, Harry Potter sense. Usually "magic" isn't even mentioned because it isn't a separate power, it's part of the natural world.

For no man who lives at all lives unto himself. He either helps or hinders all who are in anywise connected to him.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

Said ye ever Yea to one joy? O my friends, then said ye Yea also unto all woe. All things are enlinked, enlaced and enamoured

What is sustained in a sustainable community is not economic growth but the entire web of life on which our longterm survival depends.

Thinking systemically, we will recognize the major problems of our time as systemic problems—all interconnected and interdependent.

We must teach our children, our students, and our political and corporate leaders the fundamental facts of life—for example, that one species' waste is another species' food; that matter cycles continually through the web of life; that the energy driving the ecological cycles flows from the sun; that diversity assures resilience; that life, from its beginning more than three billion years ago, did not take over the planet by combat but by networking.

All things are forms of the same universal reality that is simultaneously spiritual and material. The whole cosmos is a unity and the whole cosmos is alive.

Whenever we look a life, we look at networks.

No se puede arrancar una flor sin molestar a una estrella.

the morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed

The long-standing wisdom that everyone wins in a single world market has been undermined. Global trade, capital flows, and immigration are declining.

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.