Quotes about Interdependence

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?

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.