Parker Palmer Quotes

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

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

I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Independence ... is middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.

We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

Environmental pollution, terrorism, and many other global threats do not stop at borders. We all bear global responsibility and thus need a global identity to enable us to cope with them. We must learn to integrate different levels of identity in ourselves. What matters is not either/or, but both/and.

That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.

We need a wider sense of community because we're all on the same planet.

Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.

We live in a society where individual effort and progress is valued, and that's absolutely correct and is as it should be. But we also are interdependent creatures. We can't succeed solely on our own.

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.

As our world gets more interconnected, no one country or region can meet development challenges on its own.

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.

The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us