Quotes About Symbiosis

The breeze, the trees, the honey bees — All volunteers!

My life to yours. My breath beecome yours.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

My soul and body have tottered along together of late, tripping and hindering one another like unpracticed Siamese twins.

Maitake can achieve humongous sizes, sometimes up to 50 pounds per specimen! Massive maitake can form annually from dying dendritic tree roots for many years, even decades.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Trees are our closest relatives. What trees exhale, we inhale; what we exhale, they inhale. They are half our respiratory system.

We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.

Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.

Microorganisms will give you anything you want if you know how to ask them.

But weren't we also talking about the white pines? What do they get out of it? This is how the white pines propagate. It is a form of pollination, or rather an innovation on pollination as we usually define it.

Myra Hird puts it . . . Symbiosis entails the unfathomably messy entanglements that constitute temporal assemblages that sometimes emerge as symbiogenetic singularities.14

One begins to see bacteria, not as individual species, but as a vast array of interacting constituents of an integrated microbial world.

The mycelia provide immune enhancing compounds and various neurochemicals for the plants again in exchange for nutrients that supports the development and immune function of the plant body and root brain, just exactly as they do in us when we take them as herbal medicines.

Symbiosis entails the unfathomably messy entanglements that constitute temporal assemblages that sometimes emerge as symbiogenetic singularities. 14

Ihmiskunta on lehmien loinen samalla tavoin kuin lapamato on ihmisen loinen. Ihmiskunta on imeytynyt lehmien utareisiin iilimadon tavoin. Ihminen on lehmän loinen, niin luultavasti määrittelisi ihmisen eläinopissa ei-ihminen.

Teresa las mira con simpatía y piensa que la humanidad vive a costa de las vacas, del mismo modo en que la tenía vive a costa del hombre: se ha enganchado a su teta como una sanguijuela. El hombre es un parásito de la vaca, así definiría probablemente un no-hombre al hombre en su zoología

He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.

Gradually, we have become each other's weather.

We get along fine. In return for food and shelter, they give me unconditional indifference.

Caltech brain researcher John Allman says that through agriculture and other ways of reducing daily hazards of existence, humans domesticated themselves. We now depend on others to provide food and our shelter. We're a lot like poodles in that regard.

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.

Each created entity is in symbiotic relationship with every other and in such a way that any act reverberates out and affects the whole, shaking this web with varying degrees of intensity.

Past, present, and future, the symbiosis of our lives, the old man continued quietly, gently. Our birth, our life, our death, all tied into a single package that we spend our time on this earth unwrapping. Sometimes we see clearly what it is we are looking at. Sometimes we do not. Sometimes things happen to distract or deceive us, and we must look more carefully at what it is we hold.