Quotes About Symbiosis

Good parasites are invisible; the best are indispensable. Gut bacteria, chloroplasts, mitochondria: all parasites, once.

Good parasites are invisible; the best are indispensable.

You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean. So what plants have - while we have consciousness, toolmaking, language, they have biochemistry.

I don't believe in the separation between mankind and nature. Mankind is nature.

Anyone who suggests that there is a perfect symbiosis between the farmers' interest and the animals' is probably trying to sell you something (and it's not made of tofu)

Cactus finches do more with cactus than Plains Indians did with buffalo. They nest in cactus; they sleep in cactus; they often copulate in cactus; they drink cactus nectar; they eat cactus flowers, cactus pollen, and cactus seeds. In return they pollinate the cactus, like bees.

Éramos como dos personas guiadas por un mismo deseo, como dos individuos con un único intelecto, como dos seres habitando en un solo cuerpo.

Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives lives on the death of something else. Your own body will be food for something else. Anyone who denies this, anyone who holds back, is out of order. Death is an act of giving.

Jarboe had taught Jeremy to view himself as only one part of the complex of animals and plants, and to live in harmony with his surroundings rather than to attempt to dominate them. The

Here it is: the new way of living with the world inside of us so we cannot lose it, and we cannot be lost.

The perfect host requires the perfect parasite.

we move together like underwater plants

Rather than "Survival of the Fittest"—which wasn't from Charles Darwin; it was a philosopher interpreting Darwin in 1864— we might have had the opposite, "Survival of the Most Cooperative.

In The Descent of Man he gave some powerful pages to illustrate its proper, wide sense. He pointed out how, in numberless animal societies, the struggle between separate individuals for the means of existence disappears, how struggle is replaced by co-operation, and how that substitution results in the development of intellectual and moral faculties which secure to the species the best conditions for survival.

As seen from the above, the war of each against all is not the law of nature. Mutual aid is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle, and that law will become still more apparent when we have analyzed some other associations of birds and those

Don't compete! — competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

THE woodcutter's axe begged for it's handle from the tree. The tree gave it.

In nature nothing exists alone.

The rage wraps itself around me like vines, like moss swallowing a rock. It's a natural state. It's good. It's symbiotic.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past.

I've said this forever - I've always believed the Today show is more than the sum of its parts.

He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out on the ground.