Quotes About Interdependence

We make ourselves into the net that we throw across the ocean

But in the midst of the monstrous assembly that is slave to fortune, each solitary small figure who linked her hand to another built a chain of loyalty and trust. We make ourselves into the net that we throw across the ocean.

Whatever the shadow was that lived with them, it did not belong just to him, but to her as well: it was a space they both inhabited. But it seemed there was no way to speak into that silent place. Their lives had slowly grown around it, the way the roots of a river-fig grew around a rock.

Homo sapiens, it turns out, is the most cooperative species on the planet, outperforming ants, hyenas, and even the naked mole-rat when it comes to living alongside those who are beyond our next of kin.

Third, nurture human nature. At the heart of twentieth-century economics stands the portrait of rational economic man: he has told us that we are self-interested, isolated, calculating, fixed in taste and dominant over nature—and his portrait has shaped who we have become. But human nature is far richer than this, as early sketches of our new self-portrait reveal: we are social, interdependent, approximating, fluid in values and dependent upon the living world.

In contrast to Pareto's pyramid and Kuznets's rollercoaster ride, its essence is a distributed network whose many nodes, larger and smaller, are interconnected in a web of flows.

Rather than presiding at the pinnacle of nature's pyramid, however, humanity is woven deep into nature's web. We are embedded in the living world, not separate from or above it: we live within the biosphere, not on the planet.

Si a priori l'Occident a besoin de l'Orient traditionnel, celui-ci a besoin a posteriori de l'Occident qui a été à son école. "Sur les traces de la religion pérenne

Systems thinking is "contextual," which is the opposite of analytical thinking. Analysis means taking something apart in order to understand it; systems thinking means putting it into the context of a larger whole.

Deep ecology does not see the world as a collection of isolated objects but rather as a network of phenomena that are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent. It recognizes the intrinsic value of all living beings and views humans—in the celebrated words attributed to Chief Seattle—as just one particular strand in the web of life.

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

Throughout the living world, we find living systems nesting within other living systems.

People will live their lives with or without a king to command them. It is the king who cannot live without his people.

"Independence"... [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it." ~Will Landsman

But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both.

She almost seemed to be an extension of him, and he, of her.

It is not possible to receive charity from a friend.

and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.

No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World

May their having each other make more of them both.

What really happened with Serena and Jeb is that each was able to be strong in an area in which the other needed support. In

No two people can possibly coordinate all their developmental crises.

Ignorant of our own and our mate's inner life, we are ruled largely by external forces at this stage.