Quotes About Interdependence

There's no line between a designer and consumer.

Species co-evolve with the other species they eat, and very often, a relationship of interdependence develops: I'll feed you if you spread around my genes. A gradual process of mutual adaptation transforms something like an apple or a squash into a nutritious and tasty food for a hungry animal.

You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it.

The biggest thing Rick Rubin taught me is that you don't get any extra credit by doing everything yourself.

We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.

I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways.

I think that's one of the things that sport teaches you. You are only as good as the team around you.

My thing is, going into a game, it's a team game. It's just not me.

Cricket is a team game. If you want fame for yourself, go play an individual game.

Football is a total team sport.

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

I think it's just being good every single day and being there for my teammates. I know that I can't do it alone, and they can't do it alone, and we've got to lean on each other.

My teammates have put me in all different kinds of positions to score goals, and I can't say it enough, and I really through and through believe it in my heart that I'm only as good as my teammates allow me to be.

I'm not one of those one-man-gang type of players. I'm a guy who has to rely on his teammates, to play within the team structure.

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

native: a plant or animal that has evolved in a given place over a period of time sufficient to develop complex and essential relationships with the physical environment and other organisms in a given ecological community.

Ecosystems function locally, not globally. Local extinction, the disappearance of a species within, say, the woodlot down the street, or even your front yard, is now predicted to compromise the productivity of that woodlot and your yard.

The person with true humility does not see himself as a lone fighter. People with humility see themselves as part of something bigger.

When connectedness to others is truly understood, hurting others simply becomes impossible. Ignoring the plight of others or failing to appreciate what they add to the world is also impossible. Connectedness inherently creates an interest in the welfare of others because it becomes indistinguishable from self-interest.

a community riven by factions and sects, the very advances of the age at once opened new prospects for personal fulfillment and weakened the bonds of interdependence still more. These changes would also prepare the social and cultural ground for the individualism of Emerson and Thoreau.

Culture does not exist autonomously; it is set always in the context of social relationships.

Watching gardeners label their plants I vow with all beings to practice the old horticulture and let plants identify me.

The self is completely autonomous, yet exists only in resonance with all other selves.

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