Quotes About Interdependence

FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

Strive for independence. And know you're part of everything.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.

What happens to other species also happens to us.

One organism's trash is another organism's treasure, as I like to say.

He and the second wife must have made a very close, self-contained unit--two people moving through life as if in a thinly membraned bubble, venturing out separately for practical purposes but neither of them whole unless they were together. People who didn't need many friends or outside activities, who found complete fulfillment in each other.

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen.

Não se pode separar as particularidades da sua vida da política.

A pro? v?bec se chovat urážlivÄ› k nÄ›komu, na kom jsme úplnÄ› závislí? To by nebylo v?bec hrdinství, nýbrž jen nerozvážná smÄ›lost.

This is, because that is. This is not, because that is not. This is like this, because that is like that." This is the Buddhist teaching of Genesis.

Not everything can be achieved alone.

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

Technology has made it possible to order food, buy clothes, get a ride - anything you can think of, really - at the touch of a button. But what about having the right people near you when you need them?

You can assume that the leaf you see let go of a branch and fall towards the ground has never been considered by any being but yourself. Catch it in your hand - or, even better, keep walking until one falls into your reach naturally - and it will have spent its whole time on the planet without ever touching the ground, only because of you.

When you've got guys touching the ball on the offensive end, they're really into the defensive end.

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or China; with deep roots and old loyalties, skeptical of authority, they are proud and inflexibly territorial.

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.