Christopher Alexander Quotes

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

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.

What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

We have to move from our devotion to independence, through an understanding of interdependence

I need them as much as they need me.

The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life.

Here, fire turns into water; Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun. There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction; Everything supports everything else.

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

Only a system in which all parts flourish is holistic.

Universe is synergetic. Life is synergetic.

How much finer things are in composition than 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.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

We all can't shine at the same time.

I am two with nature.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

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.

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

Fraternity without absorption, union without fusion.

Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

There are lots of ways to work together.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.