Jim Sarbh Quotes

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.

It is funny how we talk about nature as this separate entity when we are nature, and nature is us.

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

I am two with nature.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

There isn't a line that you can draw between the air and your body. We are the environment.

I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.

We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

To view any individual as being independent of relationality is like viewing a point outside of a line, a line outside of a figure, a figure outside of a body.

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.