Quotes about Interconnectedness

It is now clear not only that all the trees in the forest are interconnected below the ground but also that each of the largest and oldest trees serves as a "mother tree," with younger trees growing within her root-fungi network.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

we must not speak or think of the land alone or of the people alone, but always and only of both together. If we want to save the land, we must save the people who belong to the land. If we want to save the people, we must save the land the people belong to.

For a long time then I seemed to live by the slender thread of faith, spun out from within me. From this single thread I spun strands that joined me to the good things of the world. And then I spun more threads that joined all the strands together, making a life.

The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything. The difference ain't in who is a member and who is not, but in who knows it and who don't. Burley Coulter

Mankind cannot suffer anywhere without it bringing sorrow to other hearts.

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.

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

It's a thread in a tapestry.

Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself.