Quotes About Interdependence

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

When the wolves are gone there will be too many caribou grazing the grass and the lemmings will starve. Without the lemmings the foxes and birds and weasels will die. Their passing will end smaller lives upon which even man depends, whether he knows it or not, and the top of the world will pass into silence.

People must help one another it is nature's law.

Mama and Nathan lean on me a lot, but they give me a lot of rope, too. Maybe too much." "Maybe," I say. "I can shorten it for you.

Belonging is important for our growth to independence; even further, it is important for our growth to inner freedom and maturity. It is only through belonging that we can break out of the shell of individualism and self-centredness that both protects and isolates us.

Then the air the sparrow breathed we could breathe tool

but this was always the test of our relationship. Were we symbiotic or parasitic?

codependent behaviors. Generally these are behaviors that are care taking of others to the point where you and your needs are lost.

The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

Help each other. That is the only way to survive.

The dream of nature is a complex web of mutuality in which each part supports the other.

was me against the world. But coming here to James Town has changed me. I have learned to depend on others, especially Reverend Hunt, Captain Smith, and even Richard. I have learned the importance of standing together, of cooperating. My circle has

Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being.

Working in the garden shows me the naturalness of it all, helps me to see that as much as I might resist the notion, I'm only one part of a bigger picture.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it !

Nature provides the seed; man provides the garden; each is grateful for the other's help.

Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else's life?

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side.

The corn is planted first, followed by beans, then squash between the rows.They are called the Three Sisters. They sustain each other, the earth, and us. But the Big Ones do not know that. They do not care for the earth, and its children, properly.

But…" Both men looked over inquiringly when Maximus spoke. "But I never asked you to help me with Noakes." Makepeace nodded, his expression grave. "You didn't have to." "You never had to," St. John concurred.

A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you see. Roots to leaves, yes—those you can, in part, see. But it is more—it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.

could not endure a man who would let himself be ruled by me, and I would not endure a man who tried to rule me. However

Un'amicizia incapace di aiutare potrebbe benissimo fare a meno di esistere.