Quotes About Interdependence

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.

We're convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I've found the opposite to be true.

Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others.

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian.

I love the idea that it doesn't take one person only to achieve your potential. It takes a village, it takes a community, a street, a teacher, a mother.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

No individual can win a game by himself.

Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives.

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. And to betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us.

In nature nothing exists alone.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

Man is not above nature, but in nature.

There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

Nature always levies her tribute.

Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.