Quotes About Interconnectedness

We cannot own anyone else, people, the lands, or resources. We are here to care for each other.

Be respectful of the small insects, birds and animal people who accompany you. Ask their forgiveness for the harm we humans have brought down upon them.

began to follow all of my thoughts and was surprised how many didn't belong to me. And how many had threads to ancestors, relatives, strangers, even plants, elements, and animals.

Everything is entirely in Nature, and Nature is entire in everything. She has her center in every brute. —SCHOPENHAUER The

This web of intricate connections

We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.

Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin? –Donna Haraway, A Manifesto for Cyborgs

Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276)

Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.

He chose to include the thingsThat in each other are included, the whole,The complicate, the amassing harmony.

I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds.

It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on it's way to the future.

It followed that the powers of light and darkness were not wholly and always opposed to one another.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.

We are all connected at a deep, chemical level. We are all connected to the universe, and the universe is inside us.

Recent events lead me to believe the world is like that, too--people are the individual fragments, but we are also part of the whole mirror. We are connected, not only to one another but also to the fabric of the universe.

one planet doesn't matter.

We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us.

Everything is octopusied.

As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.