Quotes About Interdependence

love was the condition that exists whenever another person's happiness and well-being is necessary for your own happiness and well-being.

We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return.

If we were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if they were to disappear, the land's ecosystems would collapse.

Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

As cliche as it sounds you complete me and I complete you

We talk of independence. No man is independent. We are all interdependent; and we shall only rise as we carry others with us, and as we are assisted by others.

By having disconnected ourselves emotionally from the Earth and plants we have lost our understanding of those links and mutual relationships," writes Stephen Harold Buhner.4

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.

Community is not something you have, like pizza. Nor is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.

Nadie es mejor que el grupo, y el brillo individual no conduce automáticamente a unos resultados sobresalientes. Una mentalidad egoísta puede infectar el espíritu colectivo.

Porque la fuerza de la manada es el lobo, y la fuerza del lobo es la manada.

Earth may be alive: not as the ancients saw her--a sentient Goddess with a purpose and foresight--but alive like a tree. A tree that quietly exists, never moving except to sway in the wind, yet endlessly conversing with the sunlight and the soil. Using sunlight and water and nutrient minerals to grow and change. But all done so imperceptibly, that to me the old oak tree on the green is the same as it was when I was a child.

What is your future, and mine, becomes ours. We prepare each other for surprise.

loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves.

When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.

Though free to think and act, we are all held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. Except

Nature is full of examples of these odd biological relationships. Sometimes we never know how they truly formed and lump the explanation into the category: Life finds a way.

Though free to think and act, we are all held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable.

An effective network is not a unidirectional conduit of benefits; it thrives on mutual exchange and support.

I thereby learned the invaluable lesson that in the practical activities of life no man can render the highest service unless he can act in combination with his fellows, which means a certain amount of give-and-take between him and them.

I thereby learned the invaluable lesson that in the practical activities of life no man can render the highest service unless he can act in combination with his fellows, which means a certain amount of give-and-take between him and them." Restraining