Quotes About Interdependence

A related theme is to leverage external resources to the extent that you can, rather than trying to complete an ecosystem all by yourself.

because everything is connected to everything else, and the more we know about who and where we come from, the more we know about where we're headed.

the word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.

I had taken a partner once before-but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.

The Belt, for all its lonely reaches—or because of them—was as neighborly as a village. They gossiped among themselves, by suit radio. Out in the shining blackness it was good to know that, if something went wrong, there was a man listening not five hundred miles away who would come and investigate if you broke off and did not answer.

Love' is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Love' is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." Ben

no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.

It's not me, it's us. If anything happens to us, I want it to be the same thing. All right, he said seriously. From now on, we stick together. I'll handcuff us together, if you'd rather. You won't need to. I'm going to hang on.

We tend to separate subjects or areas of knowledge in our heads, whereas in Universe everything is synergetically (holistically) related. In this case, we have separated geometry from evolution, if we are blocked, and that is why we cannot see a rather obvious answer.

But if I were a man," she said, "I imagine you wouldn't let me say it." "No," I said. "If I didn't need your help, I wouldn't let you say it.

If you can't be alone," Jesse said, "you can't be with someone.

Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.

Un don para ser un don debe ser aceptado, de no ser así, es como una carga para las personas

He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors.

You know, without realizing it we fill important places in each other's lives.

This was what I finally realized, that even as we sank deeper and deeper into our lives, we were always separate. And I wondered what it would feel like, to fall but to hold on to someone else so you weren't alone.

I used to picture us as two leaves, blowing miles apart in the wind yet bound by the deep tangled roots of the tree from which we had both fallen.

In the parlance of economics, Julien has said to Pari that if she cut off the supply of attention, perhaps the demands for it would cease as well.

Humans were so ignorant, taking for granted what they received from each other, never knowing the energy they passed between themselves.

Man is a social being with independence, creativity and consciousness.

Self-reliance my ass. We're fucking monkeys. It's always about teamwork.

Kim Stanley Robinson

When everyone was seated they took up the water pitchers and poured each other's water