Interconnection Quotes

• I am a part of all that I have met.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, Attitude, Self Esteem

  "Ulysses" l. 13 (1842)

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• Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Reality, Web Of Life

  Methodist Student Leadership Conference Address, delivered 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska

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• The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

  Fritjof Capra

  Ecosystems, Resilience, Networking

  Fritjof Capra (1996). “The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems”, Doubleday

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• Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  Input, Life Is, People In Your Life

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• When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Peace, Nature

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• In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Science, Connections

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.162, Ravenio Books

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Reality, Source, Found

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• Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Our World, Term

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• The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Teamwork, Welfare

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself... We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

  Max Planck

  Art, Cutting, Taught Us

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• When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

  John Muir

  Motivational, Wisdom, Nature

  John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular species is destroyed by a severe disturbance so that a link in the network is broken, a diverse community will be able to survive and reorganize itself... In other words, the more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

  Fritjof Capra

  Ecosystems, Broken, Community

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• Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  People, Trying, Different

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• You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.

  David Niven

  Movie, Healing, Character

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• Where there is Peace, there is Culture; Where there is Culture, there is Peace.

  Nicholas Roerich

  Peace, Russia, Culture

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• A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Preparation, Analysis, Measurement

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• Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Understanding, Preparation

  Fritjof Capra (2010). “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Kings, Destiny

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• BEAUTY will result from the form and correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each other, and of these again to the whole; that the structure may appear an entire and compleat body, wherein each member agrees with the other, and all necessary to compose what you intend to form.

  Andrea Palladio

  Beauty, Respect, Body

  "The Four Books of Architecture".

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• What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else

  Joseph Campbell

  Past, Numbers, Growth

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.83, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

  Anita Diament

  Passion, Men, Office

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• There is a strong current in contemporary culture advocating ' holistic ' views as some sort of cure-all... Reductionism implies attention to a lower level while holistic implies attention to higher level. These are intertwined in any satisfactory description: and each entails some loss relative to our cognitive preferences, as well as some gain... there is no whole system without an interconnection of its parts and there is no whole system without an environment.

  Francisco Varela

  Strong, Loss, Views

  "From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology: Francisco Varela's exploration of the biophysics of being" by D. Rudrauf, Biol Res 36: 27-65, 2003.

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• No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

  Hugo Chavez

  Cutting, Law, Community

  Interview with Mark Weisbrot, venezuelanalysis.com. May 2002.

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• Tug on anything in nature and you will find it connected to everything else.

  John Muir

  Inspiring, Tugging, Connected

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