Quotes About Interdependence

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we.

Remember, God made us different because we needed suitable helpers. The more we understand and appreciate how we are different, the better we can draw on and receive the help that we need from one another.

Really, I think my tippy state was a sign. I was supposed to see how much I was depending on Ben. I was supposed to realize that you can't depend on another person to provide your own balance.

Maybe coming together as a team meant they could rely on one another to help out when things weren't going the way they'd planned, to share roles and responsibilities.

parasites make up the majority of species on Earth. According to one estimate, parasites may outnumber free-living species four to one. In other words, the study of life is, for the most part, parasitology. The book in your

Once again, the world seems to be less about objects than about interactive relationships.

All things are continually interacting with each other, and in doing so each bears the traces of that with which it has interacted: and in this sense all things continuously exchange information about each other.

the properties of an object become manifest when this object interacts with others. We cannot separate the properties from these other objects. We cannot attribute them just to a single object. All of the (variable) properties of an object, in the final analysis, are such and exist only with respect to other objects.

A small system S does not distinguish the details of the rest of the universe because it interacts only with a few among the variables of the rest of the universe.

It describes how every physical object manifests itself to any other physical object.

That which makes us specifically human does not signify our separation from nature; it is part of that self-same nature. It's a form that nature has taken here on our planet, in the infinite play of its combinations, through the reciprocal influencing and exchanging of correlations and information among its parts.

We are complex nodes in a rich web of reciprocal information.

Just as a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a group is only as strong as its weakest member.

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

One goes, or we all die

In a relationship] someone's gotta be the iceberg and someone's gotta be the sun.

The dog-as-surrogate view implies that there are only two ways to inhabit the world, with other humans or without them, and it ignores the fact that sometimes you need both and sometimes you need a safe space somewhere in between. Dogs occupy that safe space; they make it possible.

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau once said: "Living next to the Americans is like sleeping next to an elephant—no matter how friendly and even-tempered the elephant, one is affected by every twitch!

our brothers cannot be the men God created them to be or do the job God is calling them to do without their sisters. Together, we are God's preferred method of getting things done in the world.

Rich, collaborative, interdependent relationships between God's sons and daughters are vital to both genders and make the body of Christ stronger. The Blessed Alliance fuels the kingdom of God and must not be displaced by an atmosphere of tension, fear, and mistrust.

The book of Ruth proves the point. "It is not good for the man to be alone" (Gen 2:18). The point being that men actually need their sisters to step up and answer God's call on their lives.

People think that what happens to someone else has nothing to do with them. They think that what happens in one place doesn't matter any place else.

Mike Nichols used to say we were two flowers, no gardener. No one was minding the relationship.

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.