Aldo Leopold Quotes

Society is held together by trust.

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

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

I'm not a big 'me' guy. I'm a 'we' guy. It's the way I was raised.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

It Takes A Village

We live in an interdependent world. We depend on one another for prosperity.

All people owe their lives to surrounding society.

Frontiersman ideas of individualism stand exposed as we realise just how much our actions impact others.

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

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

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

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

In truth, we are all part of the team of humanity. And as such, we are all obligated to share ourselves, and our talents, for the sake of the team.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other.

The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

A society that is all self-interest and no comradeship is not a society at all. But a society that is all comradeship and no self-interest is also not a society; it is a sect - or, on the largest scale, totalitarianism.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.