Quotes about Interdependence

But if nobody can ever quite be nothing to you in Port William, then everybody finally has got to be something to you.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

While we live our bodies are moving particles of the earth, joined inextricably both to the soil and to the bodies of other living creatures. It is hardly surprising, then, that there should be some profound resemblances between our treatment of our bodies and our treatment of the earth.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.

We all need each other.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.

It's a thread in a tapestry.

Even if two people have a baby together, they are still separate. Each of us remains in isolation. It's not by living together, or by having sexual relations, or even by having children together that we can dispel this feeling of isolation. We can only dispel our mutual isolation when we practice mindfulness and are able to truly come home to ourselves and each other.