Quotes About Interdependence

L'amitié ni l'amour ne doivent recevoir que ce qu'ils peuvent rendre (37)

One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

I think the health of our water is tied to a lot: the health of our communities, hence our economy, the health of our basic human rights.

Way I see it, everyone plays their own role in the world, and no role is more important than the other.

I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.

We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.

Can we ignore what is going on around us, can we disconnect ourselves, our own material situation, our spiritual selves, who we are, can we disconnect that from history and the social context of our lives? The older I get, the more I'm convinced that we cannot, that we are social creatures.

When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is.

You like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. It doesn't make you weak.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. That's ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.

It is quite plausible that the process of increased fragmentation of production across borders is subject to 'diminishing returns' and has its natural limits.

Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives.

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

The collective comes before the individual.

Breath does, in fact, connect us all in a very literal way. Take a breath now. And as you breathe, think about what is in your breath. There perhaps is the CO2 from the person sitting next-door to you.

Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected.

Brexit is actually a step back in the sense that you are going back from being connected to being on your own.

There are colors we can't see, but they're connected to the ones we can, There's a connection between everything.

I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.

Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.