Quotes about Interdependence

What you are about to read is a book on relationship that was written in relationship.

Each of us is tempted to make relationships the end rather than the means

Yet something keeps dragging us back to other people. We know we are less than human when we are all alone.

Trust is the essential quality in any team relationship. Team members will not work interdependently with anyone they do not trust. And without interdependence there can be no effective division of the task, no leverage of the gifts and skills of individual team members, and therefore, no synergy. No trust, no relationship, no team.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others…

A cord of three strands is not easily broken.

We human beings can survive the most difficult of circumstances if we are not forced to stand alone.

No, nobody but nobody can make it out her alone.

Why do the health of the body and the health of the earth decline together?

The environment," as we call it, is intimately with us. We're in it. It's in us. But also we are it, and it is us.

The interaction, the interdependence, of life and death, which in nature is the source of an inexhaustible fecundity, is the basis of a set of analogies, to which agriculture and the rest of the human economy must conform in order to endure, and which is ultimately religious....

It might prove out to be," Athey said, "that if we can't live together we can't live at all. Did you ever think about that?