Quotes About Interdependence

It might prove out to be," Athey said, "that if we can't live together we can't live at all. Did you ever think about that?

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

But if nobody can ever quite be nothing to you in Port William, then everybody finally has got to be something to you.

While we live our bodies are moving particles of the earth, joined inextricably both to the soil and to the bodies of other living creatures. It is hardly surprising, then, that there should be some profound resemblances between our treatment of our bodies and our treatment of the earth.

The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

they want to join us and live in conscious contact with us. They need us, but more, we need them—their wisdom and their devastatingly accurate insight into the fragile truth of the world.

Animals eat one another without qualm; civilized men consume one another by due process of law. Co-operation

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

As the life of a society becomes more complex, and the division of labor differentiates men into diverse occupations and trades, it becomes more and more unlikely that all these services will be equally valuable to the group;

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

É preciso duas pessoas para fazer alguém, e uma para morrer. É assim que o mundo vai acabar.

Slick stayed where he was, looking up at Gentry's pale eyes, gray in this light, his taut face. Why did he put up with Gentry anyway? Because you needed somebody, in the Solitude. Not just for electricity; that whole landlord routine was really just a shuck. He guessed because you needed somebody around.

So you see, Case, you need us. You need us as badly as you did when we scraped you up from the gutter.

Everything, today, is to some extent the reflection of something else.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual; the impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

A social organism of any sort whatever, large or small, is what it is because each member proceeds to his own duty with a trust that the other members will simultaneously do theirs. Wherever a desired result is achieved by the co-operation of many independent persons, its existence as a fact is a pure consequence of the precursive faith in one another of those immediately concerned.

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

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.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."-- Chief Seattle, Duwamish