Quotes About Interdependence

Nothing is implied here. Except the possibility that everything is connected.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

We were two throats and one eye and we had no price.

I don't want to be free of you because I am alive only with you.

My puzzlement used to be 'why is the Lone Ranger' called 'lone' if he is always with Tonto. Now, I see that given the racial and metaphorical nature of the relationship, he is able to be understood as 'alone' precisely because of Tonto. Without him, he would be, I suppose, simply 'Ranger'.

Together the old man and the boy sat on the grass and shared the heart of the watermelon. The nasty-sweet guts of the earth.

Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime labors. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long without one another.

Margaret Thatcher's notorious bon mot: "there is no such thing as society, there are only individuals and families".

decline, fear of strangers and an unfamiliar world—is corroding the trust and interdependence on which civil societies rest.

We are all the beneficiaries of those who went before us, as well as those who will care for us in old age or ill health.

When two beings want the same thing, they can communicate. And when two beings want the same thing that neither can attain on their own, they can connect. A want held in common weaves life into one network, a worldwide web of feeling.

There is no "I" for a person, for a beehive, for a corporation, for an animal, for a nation, for any living thing. The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost, an ephemeral shroud.

Perhaps the most useful lesson of coevolution for "wannabe" gods is that in coevolutionary worlds control and secrecy are counterproductive.

In the universal library, no book will be an island. It's all connected.

We'll come to understand that no work, no idea stands alone, but that all good, true, and beautiful things are ecosystems of intertwined parts and related entities, past and present.

We want to take our rugged individualism and turn it into a rugged covenantalism.

Eliminate one species, and another increases in number to take its place

It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.

Now I have a cat. Well, that's not quite accurate. A cat and I have each other.

We are not self-made. We are dependent on one another. Admitting this to ourselves isn't an embrace of mediocrity and derivativeness, it's a liberation from our misconceptions.

For me, nothing can change the fact that your happiness is indistinguishable from mine.

No single person can save the world. We have to band together and save each other.

any American effort to decouple itself from China could well result in America decoupling itself from the world.

política cuántica», que describe cómo el mundo clásico de la física postnewtoniana (lineal, predecible y, hasta cierto punto, incluso determinista) había dado paso al mundo cuántico: altamente interconectado e incierto, increíblemente complejo y también cambiante en función de la posición del observador.