"Trails not only connect us with each other, they connect us with ourselves. Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted knew this, and designed his pathways for reverie: gentle, winding, and somehow private. Communities with no place to daydream are communities without imagination."
 David Burwell

"You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me." Scott Adams (Dilbert)

"No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it." H.E. Luccock

"In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way." Angeles Arrien

"The difference between networking and not working is one letter. " Unknown

"You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people to get what they want!" Zig Ziglar

"On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers." Adlai E. Stevenson

"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." Carl Schurz

"Every breath reveals interdependence with the environment. We live in an ocean of energy." Lee Holden

"Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe." Therese of Lisieux

"If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people." Thich Nhat Hanh

"What its children become, that will the community become."Suzanne La Follette

"Wherever you are, it is your own friends who make your world." William James

"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves." Amelia Earhart

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men." Herman Melville

"A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one." Heraclitus of Ephesus

"We may all have come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." Martin Luther King Jr.

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." Orson Welles

"The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations--each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony." Ruth Bernhard

"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited." Margaret Mead

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." Plato

"There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success."
George M. Adams

"If we always helped one another, no one would need luck." Sophocles

"Men build too many walls and not enough bridges." Isaac Newton, philosopher and mathematician (1642-1727)

"Music is the voice of the universe, it is the voice of humanity and is part of our existence. Good music is the harmonization of all the vibrations of which matter consists, and it restores us to ourselves and to our universe. It is the bond that we have between our own frequencies and those frequencies which vibrate millions of light years away. I have always felt that music is basically therapeutic." Yehudi Menuhin

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

"There is something primitive about being close to live music. What makes it work is that people are inherently eager for intimacy." Buddy Charles

"I am the connections that I weave." African proverb

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see the land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) US forester, conservationist

"Every explicit duality is an implicit unity." Alan Watts

"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there." Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)

"Life can be compared to a piece of embroidered material of which, everyone in the first half of his time, comes to see the top side, but in the second half, the reverse side. The latter is not so beautiful, but is more instructive because it enables one to see how the threads are connected together." Irvin Yalom, the Schopenhauer Cure : A Novel

"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us." Flora Edwards

"A computer is an interface where the mind and boyd can connect with the universe and move bits of it about." Douglas Adams

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving..." Albert Einstein

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. Barry Commoner (1917-) US biologist, environmentalist

“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.” Keith Haring

“Thus interdependence is a fundamental law of nature. Not only higher forms of life but also many of the smallest insects are social beings who, without any religion, law or education, survive by mutual cooperation based on an innate recognition of their interconnectedness. The most subtle level of material phenomena is also governed by interdependence. All phenomena, from the planet we inhabit to the oceans, clouds, forests, and flowers that surround us, arise in dependence upon subtle patterns of energy. Without their proper interaction, they dissolve and decay.” The Compassionate Life, Tnzin Gyatso, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” Pericles

“Man did not weave the web of life--he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web he does to himself.” Chief Seattle

“Everything is deeply intertwingled.” Ted Nelson

“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.” Montaigne

“Why should it be that whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.” Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) American mythological scholar

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the whole universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it. Corita Kent

“What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.” Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

“Artists are magical helpers. Evoking symbols and motifs that connect us to our deeper selves, they can help us along the heroic journey of our own lives.” Joseph Campbell

“When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.” Chinese Proverb

“One day I realized that there is really only one blood vessel and that it takes on different characteristics depending on where it is. Look at your hand. Tell me, is this structure a single unit or a palm and five fingers? Whether you see the separateness of the stars, or blood vessels, or your palm and fingers, or whether you see the oneness of the sky and the vascular system, or your hand depends on your perception.” Judith Lasater, Living your Yoga

“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.” Herman Melville

“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.” Chief Seattle

“There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.” Joseph Addison

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” Oprah Winfrey

“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.”
Chief Seattle