Quotes About Symbiosis

For our purposes an inversion occurs when seemingly unrelated, even disparate starting points converge and reinforce each other.

His body believed; his intuition twisted; the partnership breathed out again.

He gestured to the raven, who seemed quite content to nestle against the curve of Will's neck.

The way corals change the world—with huge construction projects spanning multiple generations—might be likened to the way that humans do, with this crucial difference. Instead of displacing other creatures, corals support them.

When you find one thing that depends on something else that, in turn depends on something else, the whole series of interactions depends on constancy.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

The uneasy symbiosis between a military authoritarian state and democratic political processes is often attributed to the artificial nature of the country and the lack of a neat fit between social identities at the base and the arbitrary frontiers drawn by the departing colonial masters.

Trivially speaking, ecological awareness means realising that beings are interconnected in some way, but then we have to figure out what this interconnection actually means.

They were two halves that together formed a magical whole.

You are literally never alone. While there are roughly 6.7 billion people on Earth, you may not feel that many of them at all care very much about your existence. But within your colon alone are living at least 1012 billion organisms, or roughly a thousand times the number of people on the planet. Stop your metabolic processes, and you stop theirs.

For her, Mr. Splitfoot is a two that is sometimes a one, mothers and their children, Nat and Ruth, life and death. "Are

When he's connected up to your nervous system, you'll be able to make him whistle, hiss, roar, flap his wings, and spit sparks, though it may take a few days to assimilate him into your body picture. Don't be surprised if at first he just burps and looks seasick. Take your shirt off, please.

Durante centenares de miles de años, el hombre luchó para abrirse un lugar en la naturaleza. Por primera vez en la historia de nuestra especie, la situación se ha invertido y hoy es indispensable hacerle un lugar a la naturaleza en el mundo del hombre.

If one has lost one's berries, one is likely to lose one's robins too.

Fish gotta swim and bird gotta sly; insects, it seems, gotta do one horrible thing after another.

Nel suo pensiero io sono l'ago che scorre, ed è la sua anima che accetta l'ago e l'accoglie.

And eventually even the brain might go. As the seat of consciousness, it was not essential; the development of electronic intelligence had proved that. The conflict between mind and machine might be resolved at last in the eternal truce of complete symbiosis…. But

Jimmy: When you die, I die Sora: Wow, that's some serious relationship!

There are carnivores, but not many. Symbiosis is the basic fact of life. That, and worship. Whistletop says all of the higher life forms owe allegiance to a godhead, and the seat of divinity is in the hub. I've been thinking of a goddess that rules the whole circle of the land. I call her Gaia, for the Greek mother.

only take as much as you give, in the circle of life.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

She and Mud were calves then. They were so devoted to each other that they walked with Date Bed grasping Mud's tail, and they said 'we' instead of 'I'--'we are tired,' 'we want,' 'we can't'--as if they were a single calf. When She-Screams slapped Mud, it was Date Bed who squealed

The nature of existence is founded upon cooperation, and everything occurs for a distinct and significant purpose on all levels of reality.

Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.