Quotes About Interdependence

I've always believed the better the players I'm surrounded by, the better I am. I've never tried to think of myself as anything different. I know who I am as a basketball player and I'm never going to try to pretend that I'm more or less, but definitely not more.

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.

Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our survival.

Your community is your survival.

From the very dawn of time until now and well into the future... human-animal companionship is at the very core of our instincts not only for mutual survival, but mutually rewarding relationships.

The United States - aspiring India's favourite country - had to learn the hard way that you ignore the world outside your door at great cost to your own survival.

Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.

Its social: in doing the arts we find out what we need from each other. But its also about survival - surviving as individuals, as groups, but also as the human race.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

Because the living environment is what really sustains us.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

Nature nurtures our souls and lifts our spirits. But it also sustains us and our economy - and it is for this reason that we take it for granted at our peril.

What's personally sustainable is globally sustainable.

I think life is sweeter shared; and if anything were to happen to my partner, I would find it really hard without her because she's the perfect person for my life.

The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

Acting can be very intimidating, because you are not in a scene alone, you have to be in sync with so many other people.

Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.

Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.

Each life is a history of affinities through which we find ourselves and are "defined" by others.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.