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Interconnectedness of all things24 quotes
Everything that lives,
Lives not alone, nor for itself. — William Blake · 1789We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. — Mother Teresa · 1975The earth is what we all have in common. — Wendell Berry · 1977To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour — William Blake · 1803Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? — Edward N. Lorenz · 1979If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar, has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are that each of us inhales one molecule of it with every breath we take. — James Jeans · 1940All 24 quotes →The universe3 quotes
The whole universe depends on everything fitting together, just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece...the entire universe will get busted. — Hushpuppy · 2012The universe and I exist together, and all things and I are one. — Zhuang Zhou · 221 BCWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. — John Muir · 1869Circle of life2 quotes
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. — William Shakespeare · 1616When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so, we are all connected in the great Circle of Life. — Mufasa · 1994Nature of the universe2 quotes
The whole universe depends on everything fitting together, just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece...the entire universe will get busted. — Hushpuppy · 2012When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. — John Muir · 1869Animal cruelty1 quote
It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away. — John Williams · 1960Beauty1 quote
It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music. — Joshua Reynolds · 1776Beauty of math1 quote
It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music. — Joshua Reynolds · 1776Butterfly effect1 quote
Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? — Edward N. Lorenz · 1979Cause and effect1 quote
Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas? — Edward N. Lorenz · 1979Connecting with others1 quote
The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the Ocean,
The winds of Heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine? — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1819Effects of travel1 quote
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honour'd of them all;
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842God and nature1 quote
All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul. — Alexander Pope · 1733Harmony1 quote
It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music. — Joshua Reynolds · 1776Life1 quote
Everything that lives,
Lives not alone, nor for itself. — William Blake · 1789Man and animals1 quote
It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away. — John Williams · 1960Man and the universe1 quote
The universe and I exist together, and all things and I are one. — Zhuang Zhou · 221 BCMonism1 quote
One universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Nature of beauty1 quote
It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music. — Joshua Reynolds · 1776Nature of life1 quote
Everything that lives,
Lives not alone, nor for itself. — William Blake · 1789Pantheism1 quote
Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1836River1 quote
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. — Norman Maclean · 1976Scale1 quote
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour — William Blake · 1803Starting small1 quote
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. — Mother Teresa · 1975The Fore1 quote
The Force is what gives the Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together. — Obi-Wan Kenobi · 1977The moon1 quote
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. — Dogen · 1253The sky1 quote
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. — Dogen · 1253The world1 quote
The earth is what we all have in common. — Wendell Berry · 1977Uniqueness of each person1 quote
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. — Hermann Hesse · 1919