Quotes About Interdependence

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade.

We all need each other.

We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but by the love for them that is in other people.

What we don't realize is that this sense of feeling better costs the other person. It is their energy that we have stolen. Most people go through their lives in a constant hunt for someone else's energy.

With the milk goes the cow," he said. "With the cow goes the milk.

What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.' Nothing, said the Prince. Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you.

doing everything ourselves isn't heroic—it's toxic.

No more have I, said Mr. Bennet; and I am glad to find that you do not depend on her serving you.

We need nature, but nature does not need us.

She called this network the Wood Wide Web because the trees of a forest are all connected under the ground. And that through this network, trees can receive information about their kinship, their health, and their needs.

All animal life ultimately depends on plants if you think about

We are part of each other's live in much the same way a lover is only slightly beneath closed lids in sleep.

Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

When we see the relatedness of ourselves to the universe, that we do not live as isolated entities, untouched by what is going on around us, not affecting what is going on around us, when we see through that, that we are interrelated, then we can see that to protect others is to protect ourselves, and to protect ourselves is to protect others.

In cyberspace, it is becoming increasingly difficult to uphold security for one's own country by sacrificing that of others.

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

A single leaf working alone provides no shade.

We're not unique. We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.