Quotes About Interdependence

If bees die, people will die. Only ignorance never dies! ("Why step out of nature ?")

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle

The root system supports the branches.

Mankind does not have dominion over the Earth, mankind has a relationship with the Earth.

Nature is powerless to put asunder.

with each measured step, we knowthis earth is only as solidas we are.

We stand somewhere between the mountain and the ant.

Always think about the needs of others because being a part of a group isan essential characteristic of human nature.

she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.

There are mystical, unbreakable bonds between all members of the natural world including humans and animals. Whether or not we remember or acknowledge this relatedness, it still exists.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.

There are three things without which there is no country--common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannot support itself in peace and social union.

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, and vice versa.

Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment.

My philosophy is: Everybody needs to look out for everybody else.

You never help anyone without helping yourself. You never pick up anyone without making yourself stronger.

Consciousness is the awareness of the interaction and interdependence among mind, body, spirit, and the universe where it resides.

We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.

Collectivism is the best solution for a society in harmony. It will be a success when you find a living being, plant or microorganism that it can be applied to.