#connected

Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is — or should be — the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all — perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows." Essay on the Biological Sciences, in: Good Reading (1958) ↗

— Rachel Carson

#ecology #environment #nature #preservation #nature

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#american revolution #bond #christianity #civil #civil government

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

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There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#between #ceremony #connected #hand #holy

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great. ↗

— Judy Blume

#book signings #connected #great #i #know

On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#bad #brings #connected #happened #here

President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another? ↗

— Ron Fournier

#another #bootstraps #casting #community #connected

Have you ever felt like a phone call that's been disconnected? ↗

— Shannen Doherty

#call #disconnected #ever #felt #like

Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276) ↗

— Julia Cameron

#spiritual-experience #spirituality #unity #experience