Quotes About Interdependence

I am not always certain that it is I who am the better person, ma petite, but together we are the better person.

Together we are more than we are apart, Anita, that is what love is.' I

Life is like dancing, sometimes one of you leads, sometimes the other, and if you do it right it's beautiful, even when it's hard.

If your happiness depends on someone else, all they have to do is pull the rug out from under you and you're miserable.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.

One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.

Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.

In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.