Quotes About Interdependence

A stele was erected as a souvenir. It was written: the mountain is no longer alone; the trees support it. (Une stèle fut érigée en souvenir. Y était inscrit : la montagne n'est plus seule; les arbres la soutiennent.)"

The handle of the heart is the hand of another. (La poignée du cœur - Est la main de l'autre.)

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. The difference did not exist.

What is good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

Eventually everything connects.

We never were separate from nature and never will be, but the dominant culture on earth has long imagined itself to be apart from nature and destined one day to transcend it. We have lived in a mythology of separation.

You are a separate individual among other separate individuals in a universe that is separate from you as well.

We are realizing our own inseparability from each other and from the totality of all life. Usury belies this union, for it seeks growth of the separate self at the expense of something external, something other.

The truth is, has always been, and always will be that we are utterly and hopelessly dependent on each other and on nature. Nor

And so the second answer: you are everything. Take away even the tiniest relationship and you are diminished as well; add one and you are increased; change any being in this cosmos, and you are altered as well. You are, therefore, everything: a web of relationship, each containing all.

because for years I thought what was good for the country was good for General Motors and vice versa.

the family is a group that needs to escape from itself...

We can challenge and encourage one another, but we cannot live the Christian life or respond to the convicting ministry of the Spirit for one another.

It's the failure to see this planet as a single entity that causes so much pain so many times. You cannot attack one part of the world without it affecting the whole earth, the whole body. Attacking other cultures, other nations, is a self-destructive act. It always comes back on you in some way.

Two hands are too small a bowl. One heart is a hill too small, to rest on.

Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win.

Everyone uses everyone, Tee. Way of the world, isn't it?

We live in a world where everything is connected. We can not longer think in terms of us and them when it comes to the consequences of the way we live. Today it's all about WE.

Man did not weave the web of life—he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."1

There are no monotone "values" in biology.

Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.

She is a woman who needs someone to take care of her, but it isn't going to be me.

to say that man is a social animal is also to say that man never lives in a world completely of his own choosing.