Quotes About Interdependence

Our creation is the modification of relationship.

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

So we grew together,Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,But yet an union in partition;Two lovely berries molded on one stem.

The British Empire and the United States will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage. For my own part, looking out upon the future, I do not view the process with any misgivings.

What links the peoples of the world together is no longer the rule of civilization or the interplay of demand and supply, but their shared dependence on biophysical life-support systems

It takes two to tango; when I go, you go.

Must not he also who has but little trust in others feel himself deprived of a very great blessing? For what society can be agreeable without mutual confidence, even between a man and a wife?

The nation and the state depend on each other.

Our biographies involve each other so intrinsically now that we're both on nearly every page.

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.

If I do not destroy the "family," the "family" will destroy me. —R. D. Laing

INFECTIOUS DISEASE IS all around us. Infectious disease is a kind of natural mortar binding one creature to another, one species to another, within the elaborate biophysical edifices we call ecosystems.

People and gorillas, horses and duikers and pigs, monkeys and chimps and bats and viruses: We're all in this together.

We are all connected in ways we cannot even begin to fathom. Our lives unfold through each other and within each other. What one suffers, we all feel. What one does changes others forever.

Who needs whom, why, and how much? The answer is important for determining the pricing structure and whether to subsidize one group or another. Suppose

Our task (the rich countries), in our own interest as well as theirs, is to help the poor become healthier and wealthier. If we do not, they will seek to take what they cannot make; and if they cannot earn by exporting commodities, they will export people. In short, wealth is an irresistible magnet; and poverty is a potentially raging contaminant: it cannot be segregated, and our peace and prosperity depend in the long run on the well-being of others.

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other.

If you ever feel the person in your life needs rescuing, particularly from him or herself - beware. Codependency is rearing its head again.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

There is no environment "out there" that is separate from us. We can't manage our impact on the environment if we are our surroundings. Indigenous people are absolutely correct: we are born of the earth and constructed from the four sacred elements of earth, air, fire and water. (Hindus list these four and add a fifth element, space.)

Life thrives on life;

Being after, being alongside, being near [près] would appear as different modes of being, indeed of being-with.

If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings were connected to each other in the deepest way and thus it was impossible to harm another without harming oneself.

Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen.