A cornerstone of American-Indian cultures is a deep sense of interconnectedness with the natural environment.
For me and many in my generation, it was the beginning of a growing sense of interconnectedness with all of humankind.
Ideally, what would result would be an enlightened sense of our interconnectedness with all human beings, regardless of race, color, religion, or creed, and a selfless, compassionate capacity to identify with others as though they were oneself.
Thus Islam teaches an interconnectedness between the environment and human beings.
After the demise of Lehman (an investment bank) and of A.I.G. (an insurance company) brought the entire banking system to the edge of collapse, many policymakers concluded that the labels attached to big financial firms didn't matter much anymore: once they reached a certain size and level of interconnectedness with other firms, they were too big to be allowed to fail.
His opening paragraph immediately puts the reader in a different space, reminding us of our interconnectedness with all of life on earth.
It allowed the Internet to grow through private investment -- which today has spurred the fastest networks the world over, broadband infrastructure across the vast majority of the country, and an Internet economy that is driving jobs and interconnectedness with and economic potential growing exponentially.
Global cities, it is suggested, have more interconnectedness with other cities and across a transnational field of action than with the national economy.
A sense of community acknowledges the obligations to and interconnectedness with the other residents of that place.
The passion of our devotion can so easily lead into a vision of the world where our sober and clear understanding of our inherent interconnectedness with all other planetary beings curdles into a conviction of Otherness towards those who do are not our immediate kin or who don't share our exact convictions of devotion.
