Quotes about Interconnectedness
Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
— Khalil Gibran
Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.
— William James
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.
— Carl Sagan
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
— CS Lewis
There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly.
— John Ortberg
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