Quotes About Symbiosis

The problem with killing 99.9 percent of bacteria is that most of them protect us from the few that can make us sick.

It could be said that the dishes used human beings in a symbiotic relationship, convincing us through their usefulness to make new dishes.

Allora non erano due esseri umani, erano un essere umano solo, in inconsapevole, completo benessere, soddisfatti di se stessi e del mondo. Se si fosse trattenuto uno dei due all'estremità opposta della casa, l'altro, involontariamente, si sarebbe a poco a poco avvicinato a lui. La vita era per loro un enigma, e solo insieme trovavano la sua soluzione.

We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

Death fosters life that life may suckle death.

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.

For every problem in a given discipline of science, there exists a species or other entity or phenomenon ideal for its solution. (Example: a kind of mollusk, Aplysia, proved ideal for exploring the cellular base of memory.) Conversely, for every species or other entity or phenomenon, there exist important problems for the solution of which it is ideally suited. (Example: bats were logical for the discovery of sonar.)

Everything depends on something. The leaf depends on the tree. The tree depends on the sun, air and water. They are only 'part' of the Universe. To depend on God is to know the same and be sublimely happy because of that knowledge.

I still feel like the world is a piece of bread, I'm holding out half to you

it does not occur to brigitte to say leave me in peace. brigitte knows, there are so many woman who would like to turn a stranger's, her, brigitte's future into one of their own. so brigitte prefers to turn herself into an extension of heinz's limbs, into a part of heinz's body.

Perhaps most important for nomads was the belief in the symbiosis that existed between wolf and humans on the steppe. Wolves were an integral part of keeping the balance of nature, ensuring that plagues of rabbits and rodents didn't break out, which in turn protected the all-important pasture for the nomads' herds.

We've been together since the womb. We met in the womb.

The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

We must become aware of the astonishing fact that as a species we are the victims of an instance of traumatic abuse in childhood. As human beings, we once had a symbiotic relationship with the world-girdling intelligence of the planet that was mediated through shamanic plant use. This relationship was disrupted and eventually lost by the progressive climatic drying of the Eurasian and African land masses.

The flower invites the butterfly with no-mind; The butterfly visits the flower with no-mind. The flower opens, the butterfly comes; The butterfly comes, the flower opens. I don't know others, Others don't know me. By not-knowing we follow nature's course

Vic laughed. "Seems to me that you didn't want to get joined because you were afraid of losing yourself. But from what I can tell, none of Dax's previous hosts lost anything from being joined. They just got more.

That which is not good for the bee-hive, cannot be good for the bee.

For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away.

We were born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural.

What is not good for the hive is no good for the bee

That you are part of nature, and no one can prevent you from speaking and acting in harmony with it, always.

That which is not in the interests of the hive cannot be in the interests of the bee.