We don't accomplish
anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole
tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to
another that creates something.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor
Isn't
everyone a part of everyone else?
-- Budd Schulberg
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All things
are connected like the blood that unites us, We did not weave the web of life.
We are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
~ Chief Seattle
"Whatever
befalls the earth, befalls the people of the earth." ~ Chief
Seattle What
is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great
loneliness of the spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to
man. All things are connected. ~ Chief
Seattle
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Systems
thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships
rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static "snapshots."
It is a set of general principles -- distilled over the course of the twentieth
century, spanning fields as diverse as the physical and social sciences, engineering,
and management.... During the last thirty years, these tools have been applied
to understand a wide range of corporate, urban, regional, economic, political,
ecological, and even psychological systems. And systems thinking is a sensibility
-- for the subtle interconnectedness that gives living systems their unique character.
-- Peter Senge
| "Independence"...
middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us
on earth. -- George Bernard
Shaw | 
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The same stream of life
that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in
rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of
the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves
and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and
of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of
this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my
blood this moment.
-- Rabindranath Tagore
I
am a part of all that I have met.
-- Lord Tennyson
"We
are faced with having to learn again about interdependency and the need for rootedness
after several centuries of having systematically—and proudly—dismantled our roots,
ties, and traditions. We had grown so tall we thought we could afford to cut the
roots that held us down, only to discover that the tallest trees need the most
elaborate roots of all."
-- Paul L. Wachtel
| The oneness of
human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together. -- Muhammad
Yunus |  |
Interconnection
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