Fritjof Capra Quotes

There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

In the same way, the world is not the sum of all the things that are in it. It is the infinitely complex network of connections among them. As in the meanings of words, things take on meaning only in relationship to each other.

If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.

We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.

There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.

The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I find it nice.

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. They are composed harmoniously, and together - they compose the world.

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.

I am interested and deeply curious about our need for a spiritual life, a life of greater meaning, and how we come to a more ethical view of life within our communities that is more inclusive than exclusive, one that is extended even beyond our own species.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

Everything...affects everything

You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.

We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.

It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless.

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which things relate to one another.

The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.

You are the world and the world is you.

We are animal. We are Earth. We are water. We are a community of human beings living on this planet together. And we forget that. We become disconnected, we lose our center point of gravity, that stillness that allows us to listen to life on a deeper level and to meet each other in a fully authentic and present way.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.