Quotes About Interdependence

Life improves the capacity of the environment to sustain life," his father said. "Life makes needed nutrients more readily available. It binds more energy into the system through the tremendous chemical interplay from organism to organism.

Why do you think you could do to me what I will not do to you? That is not the way of interdependence." Her

Cuanta más vida hay en un sistema, mayor es la cantidad de nichos que existen para preservar esta vida

The human quest for this interdependent order and our niche within it represents a profound necessity. The quest can, however, be perverted into a conservative grip on sameness. This has always proved deadly for the entire system.

Whenever I travel to a poor country, I try to help at least one person. Usually, that person helps me just as much - I can find a local poor person to be my guide or my interpreter. That person makes money from me, I make money from him or her, we both learn about each other. It's an equal win-win relationship.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.

It's not an exaggeration to say that Texas gets a lot more out of being part of the United States than the United States gets out of having Texas as one of the states.

The Stones without Mick. The Police without Sting. The Doors without Jim. It doesn't work.

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

Everything is connected, so you can't just live in a Trumpian world and be an isolationist when you're managing government by congressional district or by city. The mentality that you can cut off one area to punish a policy just doesn't work in the real world... it's cutting off your nose to spite your face.

I'm not alone, Shelby," she said patiently. I'm on my own – there's a difference...

In picking up a rock I could no longer simply say, 'This is a rock,' I could now say, 'This is part of a net,' or closer, 'This, which everything acts upon, acts.' When this way of thinking became ordinary for me, I too became lost in the net and the boundaries of myself stretched out for ever.

God has distributed his graces in such a way that we really need each other," said the priest. "Certainly there's the old man within me that craves individualism, but the more I live in community, the more I see that you can't have it and be faithful, or fully human.

conciencia quiere decir conocer con otros.

The key to team wins is for everyone in each position to understand what the other positions are doing and why they're doing it." If teams don't collaborate effectively across functional boundaries, they lose.

one grows not only by being one's self but also by participating in other selves, is necessary if we are to move toward self-realization.

To 'live', to be truly alive, it is not enough simply to breathe, to suffer, nor even to be happy; life is a secret that cannot be discovered on one's own. True living is done in pairs.

Une fille sans nattes est comme une ville sans ponts.

One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people's experience of the mutual interdependence of men and women.

I imagined myself in some way defined by my relation to another creature.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones. Our pulse is set to theirs

She wanted him to be the sunshine to her clouds. She couldn't handle the idea that he had weather patterns of his own, and that he contained within himself the makings of a downpour and possibly even a monsoon.

All things great are wound up with all things little.