Quotes About Interdependence

The notion of "cause and effect" is sometimes useful in real life, and it can even be interesting in art, but I'm more interested in "cause and cause" or "effect and effect" or "and and and".

We were meant to rescue each other, not cut down the forest to rescue one.

For some women, they need a man. For others, men need them.

There's no ''Self made'' we're all dependent.

Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen.

The evolution of the universe is both mirrored by and incumbent upon your own.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness.

I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

But weren't we also talking about the white pines? What do they get out of it? This is how the white pines propagate. It is a form of pollination, or rather an innovation on pollination as we usually define it.

Everything in that frame is judged in terms of the human, as if we are outside the ecological matrix in which we are embedded, as if evolution ended once and for all with our emergence, with the development of our brains.

Gratitude is equally underrated and under-practiced. It too requires humility to say "thank you." Saying "thank you" means one is dependent on the other, that one needs the other.

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September 11 made plain how the security of ordinary Afghans was connected to the security of ordinary Americans and Europeans.

cause and effect act in webs, not chains.

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

Try to create modules that depend little on other modules. Make them detached, as business associates are, rather than attached, as Siamese twins are.

relationships are the real, evolving, living systems of human culture.

Discovering a biblical self-image in Christ increases your dependency upon Him and decreases an unhealthy dependency upon one another. I

When the developed grow fast, the developing grow fast, and when the developed slow down, the developing slow down.

Whenever you need something from someone else before you can move forward, it's a dependency. We believe dependencies slow people down. We want people to be more independent, because that will keep them moving forward.

When approaching the small things, you have to know, 'If I do my job, it's going to make the job easier for everybody else.'

The world is becoming smaller every day.