Daniel Dennett Quotes

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.

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.

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

A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

I love how small the world is.

One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.

The roots that weave up my right arm and onto my neck are my way of connecting with the earth: the earth's roots carry water like a human's veins carry blood.

The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

We are all together in this, we are all together in this single living ecosystem called planet earth.

In nature nothing exists alone.

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively.

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

The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy...to join the dots and see that everything is interconnected. This is the ecological thought. And the more we consider it, the more our world opens up." The ecological thought "...is a vast, sprawling mesh of interconnection without a definite center or edge. It is radical intimacy, coexistence with other beings, sentient and otherwise.

There are so many messages and lessons that I have been taught that I would want to share with people. Perhaps one that is very present in my mind now is the concept that we are all living on this one tiny planet that we call Earth. It is very small and is not getting any bigger, but the amount of people living on this planet continues to grow at a rapid rate.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.