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• We are not going to deal with the violence in our communities, our homes, and our nation, until we learn to deal with the basic ethic of how we resolve our disputes and to place an emphasis on peace in the way we relate to one another.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Peace, Home, Community

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• Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence.

  Stephen Covey

  Independence, True Independence, Built

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• All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Political, Patterns, Information

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.

  Serge King

  Prayer, Blessing, Web Of Life

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• Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment.

  David Blunkett

  Believe, Pride, Government

  "For far too long, we have left patriotism to the extremists" by David Blunkett, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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• People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

  Felix Adler

  People, Diversity, House

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• Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.

  Willis Harman

  Inspirational, Mind, Vision

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• There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.

  Alan Watts

  Flower, Way, Bees

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• There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

  Gish Jen

  Art

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Odds, Two, Limits

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• All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Land, Water

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.178, Oxford University Press

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• At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in a larger whole, a cosmic whole, of belonging to the universe.

  Fritjof Capra

  Spiritual, Talking, Understanding

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• Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

  Alan Watts

  Unity, Hallucinations, Serious

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.112, New World Library

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• The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events--that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of our own bodies--and will end in destroying the very environment from which we emerge and upon which our whole life depends.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Nature, Attitude

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.9, Souvenir Press

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• We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

  Jane Addams

  Class, People, Democracy

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• Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to express some of the most profound teachings of interdependence and emptiness I've ever heard. With the eloquence of a poet, he holds up a sheet of paper and teaches us that the rain cloud and the tree and the logger who cut the tree down are all there in the paper. He's been one of the most significant carriers of the lamp of the dharma to the West that we have had.

  Jack Kornfield

  Rain, Teaching, Cutting

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• In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

  Cory Booker

  America, Independence, Advancement

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Feb 19, 2016

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• We are not wholly patriotic when we are working with all our heart for America merely; we are truly patriotic only when we are working also that America may take her place worthily and helpfully in the world of nations . . . Interdependence is the keynote of the relations of nations as it is the keynote of the relations of individuals within nations.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Heart, Patriotic, America

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• We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, Hiv, Aids Day

  "Fighting Stigma: Why the Depiction of Illness Matters" by David M. Kirby, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2016.

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• Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

  William J. Clinton

  Pride, People, Independence

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2549, Best Books on

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• A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Mother, Father, Expression

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• To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Mean, Greed, Survival

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• We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have. When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love.

  Jean Vanier

  Self, People, Needs

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• In its broad aspects, the proper feeding of children revolves around a public recognition of the interdependence of the human animal upon his cattle. The white race cannot survive without dairy products.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Animal, Race

  The Dairy World, Volume 1, Issue 1, June 1922.

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• We deeply need the humility to know ourselves as the dependent members of a great community of life, and this can indeed be one of the spiritual benefits of a wilderness experience. ... [T]o know the wilderness is to know a profound humility, to recognize one's littleness, to sense dependence and interdependence, indebtedness and responsibility.

  Howard Zahniser

  Spiritual, Humility, Responsibility

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