“The world is as delicate and complicated as a spider's web. If you touch one thread you send shudders running through all the other threads.”— Gerald Durrell
“Ecological thinking requires us to see the interconnectedness of all things, including our knowledge practices.”— Lorraine Code
“You could not remove a single grain of sand from its place without thereby... changing something throughout all parts of the immeasurable whole.”— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
“If you don't understand that you are an ecosystem, you can't have a prayer of handling the complexity of the world.”— Dee Hock
“There is a destiny that makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.”— Greg Bear
“The notion of a separate organism is a fiction, for all organisms are part of an interconnected whole.”— David Bohm
“Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism... of sexism... of religious intolerance... of war... of gross economic inequality. But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems.”— Paul R. Ehrlich
“Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation.”— Marilyn Ferguson
“The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.”— Stanley Kunitz
“The core of this belief is that everything is sacred and that we are related to everything.”— Barry Lopez
“There is a destiny that makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.”— Alla Nazimova