Quotes About Interdependence

You can find people. It's like those acrobatic displays.... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn't really matter who they are, as long as they're there and you don't let them go away without finding someone else.

It's easier to have parents if you've got a girlfriend.

multicellular life. All animals, all plants, all of them depend on

It was OK to need people; she was learning that. You just had to be careful.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go

Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.

I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But being capable of it doesn't mean being unable to share and depend on someone else. It shouldn't mean being unwilling to. That's the romance.

We're as different as that water and hot glass, Rogan. And as able to make something strong between us.

the people. The bees that buzz, the birds that fly, all bound together.

The theory itself, which has been verified to five decimal places, demands an absolute beginning for time, space, and matter. It shows that time, space, and matter are co-relative. That is, they are interdependent—you can't have one without the others.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

We are all connected on the inside. Your ass is just the far end of your mouth.

Perseguís a la gente de quien dependéis, preparamos vuestras comidas, recogemos vuestras basuras, conectamos vuestras llamadas, conducimos vuestras ambuláncias, y os protegemos mientras dormís, así que no te metas con nosotros.

Zivilisation ist ein Zustand, den ungesellige Eigenbrötler dem Rest der unbeschwerten, familienorientierten Menschheit auferlegen.

Io ho bisogno che qualcuno abbia bisogno di me, ecco cosa. Ho bisogno di qualcuno per cui essere indispensabile. Di una persona che si divori tutto il mio tempo libero, il mio ego, la mia attenzione. Qualcuno che dipenda da me. Una dipendenza reciproca.

You are never completely on your own, no one on this earth is. Everyone is tied, and shares connections with others. That is why humans can never be completely free. It is the reason that humans feel joy and sorrow.

Neighborliness means you give up your right to live your life the way you want to live it.

It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected.

I remember thinking that they went like lovers. They could not survive without each other. It was like they had spent their lives breathing each other's breath.

Curious: At the very moment modern technology annuls all frontiers and distances (flying, wireless, television, economic interdependance), the most extreme nationalism is raging.

Individuality can only be valuable when it is not individuality for its own sake but individuality for the human community.

This, I think, shows what being free means. Not cutting off one's ties with other but making networks out of these connections in cooperation with them.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?