Quotes About Interdependence

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

The mountain rests on the earth: the image of Splitting Apart. Thus those above can ensure their position only by giving generously to those below.

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.

But to depend on another psychologically—to depend on another emotionally—what does that imply? It means to depend on another human being for my happiness. Think about that. Because if you do, the next thing you will be doing, whether you're aware of it or not, is demanding that other people contribute to your happiness.

Reading about declining owl populations led him to deforestation which led to soil erosion which led to ocean pollution which led to coral bleaching, everything warming, melting, and dying faster than scientists predicted, every system on the planet connected by countless invisible threads to every other:

When I talk about 'everyday communism', I am teasing a little. It is a provocative idea. But then we all do a lot of sharing a lot of the time. We don't draw up contracts for everything.

Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.

We're all about pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, et cetera - I think that's a harmful mythology, that the choices that we make and the things that we do in our lives are not connected to anything else. So I'd like to help to debunk that.

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another?

We have moved beyond the point of trust being simply a key factor in product purchase or selection of employment opportunity; it is now the deciding factor in whether a society can function.

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.

If you're only focusing on yourself, then you're not going to help the team.

Tessa and I, what we'd like to be - it's so hard to evaluate ourselves - when we're training, focusing on things, it's about a man and a woman, what we create between each other, working off each other.

What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.

Tú y yo somos una sola criatura, las dos partes de una unidad. No podemos vivir separados, no podemos apartarnos el uno del otro; tú no puedes excluirme, yo tampoco. Cualquier suerte que debamos correr, la correremos juntos. Roger Blackraven.

I dare say you could live without me, Sara; but I couldn't live without you. I was nearly dead.

No, you won't. And I won't be enough for you, Amanda. I don't want to be the center of your life. I want to be part of it. I want to be your husband, not your god. People can't always be there for you, no matter how much they want to be. And that includes me.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up.

I am not the river I am the net.

Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.

They tend to forget that nothing in a polarized universe can exist without its opposite being present. —

Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life—all life—is in the service of life.

A wise man depends upon his friends for information and upon himself for decisions

A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without