Rigoberta Menchu Quotes

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.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.

The Indian feels that he is related to the animal world. That all living things are related.

How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?

There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of any sort; they have nobody to speak for them except us, the human beings who share the world with them but do not own it.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Each the others world entire.

We are all part of one another.

Life is one indivisible whole.

The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!

We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.

Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

Obviously technologies that are sustainable are a logical first step to creating a just society, one that doesn't trample life in all its forms, whether it's other humans or other life forms on the earth, one that acknowledges that we're all sharing the space and that there needs to be room for every living thing somewhere.

We're all inseparably part of each other. We all coexist in each other.

Animals make us Human.

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

We don't have two hearts, one for animals and one for humans ; we have one heart or we don't have any.