Quotes About Interdependence

Il libro non è un ente chiuso alla comunicazione: è una relazione, è un asse di innumerevoli relazioni.

None of us are sovereign over others, although to such ill-omened thoughts we cling.

Everything, all the time, is causing everything else.

As the individual is an organ of society, so is the tribe or city - so is humanity entire - only a phase of the mighty organism of the cosmos

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

fused, or—imagine this—sharing one trunk with two necks?

Whatever America needs, the world will supply. Cocaine? Colombia steps to the plate. Shortage of farmworkers, corn detasselers? Thank God for Mexico. Baseball players? Viva Dominica. Need more interns? India, Philippines zindabad!" I

This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. She

This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone.

Givers reject the notion that interdependence is weak. Givers are more likely to see interdependence as a source of strength, a way to harness the skills of multiple people for a greater good.

Many people who hold giver values in life choose matching as their primary reciprocity style at work, seeking an even balance of give and take.

We don't have relationships to get our needs met, we have relationships to discover what our needs might be.

Genes never work in isolation, and almost never have just one role.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.

One may be repelled by this law of nature which demands that all living things should mutually devour one another. The fly is snapped up by a dragon-fly, which itself is swallowed by a bird, which itself falls victim to a larger bird. This last, as it grows old, becomes a prey to microbes, which end by getting the better of it. These microbes, in their turn, find their predestined ends.

The perfect host requires the perfect parasite.

We live our lives far removed from the food chains that support us, sitting atop a trophic pyramid we never really become part of.

we move together like underwater plants

Paul Pogba can do everything but he cannot do everything all alone.

Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going.

You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else.

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.

Individual performance doesn't mean anything to me.