Barry Commoner Quotes

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.

You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. [...] Nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.

We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe.

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. We are all one interdependent organism, so our focus may seem broad but each element interacts with the other. We have so many phenomenal eyes, skills, and hands on deck. It's mind-blowingly exciting.

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they compose the world.

In nature nothing exists alone.

All things are bound together. All things connect.

All things are delicately interconnected.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the term nonduality. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.

We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

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.

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

I am two with nature.

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

The seed of everything is in everything else.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.

The African…regards the Universe as one composite whole; an organic entity, progressively driving towards greater harmony and unity whose individual parts exist merely as interdependent aspects of one whole realizing their fullest value in the corporate life where communal contentment is the absolute measure of values.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.