Alphonse Elric:  Say , Brother , have you found the answer to " One is all , all is _ one _ " ? I 've been thinking about it all this time , but I only have a vague idea about it .
Edward Elric: I 'm not sure about this , but remember when I was weak from hunger , and ate those ants ?
Alphonse Elric: You did ?
Edward Elric: Mm - hmm , I ate them , They were sour as hell , too . But then , I thought , if I did n't eat them , and died , I 'd be eaten by ants , or the foxes . I 'd go back to the earth , and become grass . The rabbits would eat that .
Alphonse Elric: The food chain , right ?
Edward Elric: Yeah . And it 's not just that . Long ago , this whole island may have been at the bottom of the sea . In tens of thousands of years , it might be the peak of a mountain .
Alphonse Elric: All things are connected ?
Edward Elric: Everything is in the middle of a great , unseen flow . I do n't know if you 'd call it the universe , or the world , or whatever . Looking at it as this huge thing . Al , you and I are like ants . One small part within the flow . Nothing more than on fraction of the whole . But putting all those small " ones " together allows the " all " to exist ...