Lew Wallace Quotes

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

You don't want to put somebody in a bad spot because you'll put everybody in a bad spot.

Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.

Everything...affects everything

When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.

You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.

Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.

He picked up the letter Q and hurled it into a distant privet bush where it hit a young rabbit. The rabbit hurtled off in terror and didn’t stop till it was set upon and eaten by a fox which choked on one of its bones and died on the bank of a stream which subsequently washed it away. During the following weeks Ford Perfect swallowed his pride and struck up a relationship with a girl who had been a personnel officer on Golgafrincham, and he was terribly upset when she suddenly passed away as a result of drinking water from a pool that had been polluted by the body of a dead fox.

Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.

There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

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.

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

Every little thing you do adds up, and before you know it, you've created your life. And how you create your life ripples out and affects everyone and everything that crosses your path, known or unknown to you.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed