Quotes About Coexistence

Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.

As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

Skull of an early modern human, dating from 90,000 years ago, found at Qafzeh in Israel. Found at the same site were remains of Neandertals, suggesting that here at least the two species coexisted, possibly for thousands of years.

The white people never looked at the Aborigines, and the Aborigines never looked at the white people. The two races seemed to inhabit separate but parallel universes. I felt as if I was the only person who could see both groups at once.

the beaver and bear nearly

Of course, we in the West like to pat ourselves on the back and say we're more tolerant, and we are--but tolerance is not the same thing as acceptance. It just means, We think you're crazy and going to hell, but we won't kill you for it--we'll tolerate you. But you don't know who the Man in the Sky is, and we do.

I am the sound of rain on the roof. I also happen to be the shooting star, the evening paper blowing down an alley, and the basket of chestnuts on the kitchen table. I am also the moon in the trees and the blind woman's tea cup. But don't worry, I am not the bread and the knife. You are still the bread and the knife. You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that.

There was a single argument he made, Clapper said, that the North Koreans had not pushed back on during his 2014 visit. The United States, he had argued, has no permanent enemies. Look, he said, we had a war with Japan and Germany but now are friends with both. We had a war with Vietnam but now we are friends. Clapper had recently visited Vietnam. Even after a full-scale war, peaceful coexistence was possible.

when you put a snake and a rat and a falcon and a rabbit and a shark and a seal in a zoo without walls, things start getting nasty and bloody. That's what happens.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Kumbang selalu membutuhkan bunga. Tetapi bunga juga membutuhkan kumbang untuk bisa bertahan hidup

Our kind has surely accomplished brilliant feats during our short time on this earth as a species. But before we poison, pollute, degrade and murder every other creature on the planet, we must learn to limit our numbers and our greed. This is the lesson that humans so desperately need to learn at this turning point in human history.

The sight of a slender young woman sitting in the anaconda exhibit with a 13-foot-long, predatory reptile snuggling in her lap, the tip of a tail coiled lovingly around one leg, provided dramatic evidence of what Scott and Wilson already knew: "Just about every animal," Scott says—not just mammals and birds—"can learn, recognize individuals, and respond to empathy." Once

The sight of a slender young woman sitting in the anaconda exhibit with a 13-foot-long, predatory reptile snuggling in her lap, the tip of a tail coiled lovingly around one leg, provided dramatic evidence of what Scott and Wilson already knew: "Just about every animal," Scott says—not just mammals and birds—"can learn, recognize individuals, and respond to empathy.

And I said I wanted to live in the country and in the city both?

Como seres humanos, formamos parte de la naturaleza, no estamos por encima de ella. Por

Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are only termite hills left but no bush?

Two reeds drink from the same stream. One is hollow, the other is sugarcane. —MOROCCAN PROVERB

It was strange how most of the time we got along so well, but then there were these periods when it was a good things the knives were in the drawer and not out on display.

Folk in the Lower City do not tell each other how to worship, or if they do, it is not for long.

I have learned that one should say Peace! to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.

I have recently read how many million square miles of backyards there are in this country. Think what a difference it would make if even a sizable portion of these backyards were managed according to nature's rhythm rather than people's; if only the owners tried for maximum diversity because of their love of living things rather than maximum order and limitation because of human exclusivity. ---- Norman Lavers