Quotes About Coexistence

If the Epic of Gilgamesh carries a teaching, it is that the other makes our existence possible.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

When psychological education is less rudimentary that it is at present, people belonging to different types will recognize each other's right to exist. Every man will stick to the problems, inward or outward, with which nature has fitted him to deal; and he will restrained, if not by tolerance, at least by the salutary fear of making a fool of himself, from trespassing on the territory of minds belonging to another type.

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

There are so many people who would love to be able to live in peace, but there are so many others who do not want to let them. Mr.

Music and art and philosophy are ultimately based on the premise that this man on his tractor, and these pigs, and the swarms of bees that fertilise the crops, will all continue to do what they do.

they were two people thrown together on a journey, who found themselves sharing the same railway compartment and becoming resigned to each other's company.

and the vestiges of that early feeling were still there, as she could not bring herself to punish the snails or caterpillars for their depredations. They were her fellow creatures, after all. They had not asked to be snails or caterpillars, and they needed to eat, as we all did.

Alexander McCall Smith

There are so many people who would love to be able to live in peace, but there are so many others who do not want to let them.

Ulf sighed. Why could people not live together in harmony? Why did people think that berating and assaulting others should do anything but make everything worse for everybody?

Have you noticed that everything in Nature, gives back to Nature?

We can no more get out of a relationship with nature than we can get out of history.

the competitive exclusion principle.

The world peeps, squawks, bangs, and thunders at many frequencies all at once. What is a significant delay depends—usually—on which set of frequencies you're trying to understand.

Weather meaning 'weather' and man meaning 'man.

What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

about cycling deaths in London written by a woman can be framed through the headline: 'Roads Designed by Men are Killing Women'.10 Such rhetoric exacerbates any existing divisions and each time creates a number of new ones. And for what purpose? Rather than showing how we can all get along better, the lessons of the last decade appear to be exacerbating a sense that in fact we aren't very good at living with each other.

The most successful of biology's creatures coexist in mutually beneficial ecosystems.

The tongue hardly quarrels with the teeth even though they both live together. Let us as humans learn to live together because there is enough space for everyone to survive in life

Injustice and peace are strange bedfellows

Words summarize the American philosophy of life: Live and let live; Let's make a deal. 8 words summarize American foreign policy: We're better than you; Do it our way.

Life doesn't happen to us, but happens with us.

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.