Quotes about Interconnectedness
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
- John Donne
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other
- Paul Ricoeur
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.
- Madeleine L'Engle
No man is an island unto himself.
- John Donne
There are miraculous relationships between beings and things; in this inexhaustible whole, from sun to aphid, no one looks down on anyone else; everyone needs each other. Light
- Victor Hugo
The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises the other; all have need of each other.
- Victor Hugo
We are, you and I, at least one of the ways that the Universe knows itself
- Carl Sagan
If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
I bowed my heard, and I knew that we have a lot to learn from the leaf because it was not afraid - it knew that nothing can be born and nothing can die.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
We are imprisoned in our small selves, thinking only of the comfortable conditions for this small self, while we destroy our large self.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
When conditions are sufficient, we manifest. When conditions are no longer sufficient, we no longer manifest. It does not mean that we do not exist. Like radio waves without a radio, we do not manifest.
- Thich Nhat Hanh