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Quotes About Interconnectedness

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our breath is connected to the air that every being breathes. By breathing consciously, we acknowledge our communion with all of life.
~ Sharon Gannon
It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted.
~ Stephanie Mills
The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.
~ Wilferd Peterson
There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.
~ John Dewey
Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.
~ Josiah Royce
I don't see anything wrong with technology as long as it doesn't interfere with your life.
~ Kathleen Turner
One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.
~ Mary Blakely
We are the environment and how we treat each other is really how we treat the environment
~ John Francis
We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
~ John Glasworthy
And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together.
~ John Green
As I understood it, what really mattered was simply that some systems ('system' is just a jargon word for anything, like a swinging pendulum, or the Solar System, or water dripping from a tap) are very sensitive to their starting conditions, so that a tiny difference in the initial 'push' you give them causes a big difference in where they end up, and there is feedback, so that what a system does affects its own behaviour.
~ John Gribbin
Nuestro medio ambiente terrestre es, en gran parte, producto del Universo en el que vivimos.
~ John Gribbin
Everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation. Between us and everybody else on this planet.
~ John Guare
I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close.
~ John Guare
if I see myself only in terms of myself, I am always going to be wrong. To fully understand who I am and what I am capable of, I need to always see myself in terms of a community.
~ John Hunter
I am a part of all I have read
~ John Kieran
The Animist is, in other words, all those who see an equivalence between all forms of life or who can see life where others would see the lack of life. The theoretical
~ Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Interdependency is healthy; dependency is not.
~ Elizabeth B. Brown
Sometimes synchronicity works.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Carel looked at me, stricken. Bound to me, and by more than tangles in my hair.
~ Elizabeth Bear
We feed on it, and it feeds on death." "Everything feeds on death," Mallory answered. "Especially me.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Everything only connected by "and" and "and."
~ Elizabeth Bishop