Quotes about Interconnectedness

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

The invitation is about participation, not mere observation. We are not journeying in the universe but with the universe.  We are not concerned about living in an evolving world but co-evolving with our world. We are parts of a whole, much greater than the sum of its parts, and yet within each part we are interconnected with the whole.

When One tugs at a single thing in Nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

What is man without the beasts?
If the beasts were gone, men would die
of a great loneliness of spirit.
For whatever happens to the beasts
happens to man.
All things are connected.