Quotes About Symbiosis

Everything depends on everything else. The One contains the many, and the many contains the One

To read is to make love to the world," he said. "But to make love to a woman is to feel like the world is reading you.

Throughout the living world, we find living systems nesting within other living systems.

She almost seemed to be an extension of him, and he, of her.

and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.

You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens.

Darwinian focus on the fitness of the individual de-emphasizes the significance of communal cooperation in evolution.

From the beginning, we've been yanked together by the tug of sociality. Three and a half billion years ago, our earliest cellular ancestors, bacteria, evolved in colonies. Each bacterium couldn't live without the comfort of rubbing against its neighbors.

Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.

To me, it's like, what's good for me is good for Cheap Trick... and what's good for Rick is good for Cheap Trick, and so on... and that's the thing.

What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

our kids need to understand that they are not above, outside, or apart from their physical environment—they are completely intertwined with it, and it with them.

Where I bleed, he bleeds. As he wounded me, he wounded himself.

Both of their leaned down, and I felt as if my flesh was alight with their radiance.

It was as if they were trying to eat into one another's bodies, absorb the part of them that would be forever outside.

Your friends and family may wonder how you could want someone so badly who has treated you poorly. What they don't understand is that your partner's leaving automatically aroused symbiotic feelings that had been stored deep in your emotional memory. You are left to cope with feelings that stem from psychobiological processes that operate independently of your conscious thought and beyond your immediate control.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' options - indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.

AS WE LAY THERE WE FELT LIKE WE WERE EXTENSTIONS OF EACH OTHER, LIKE OUR BODIES AND OUR HEARTS HAD TO BE TOGETHER TO MAKE ONE WHOLE PERFECT PERSON.

Tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much that he died every night to let her breathe.

She was his dawn of bliss He was her dusk of wounds, Each day they came up to See and touch They couldn't stay for long But they looked perfect together ~

Znamo mi vrlo dobro kako izgleda pod tu?im repom, ali bez toga njuškanja ne možemo živjeti.

There's a moth, more than one in fact, that lives only on tears," he offered. "That's all they eat or drink." "What kind of tears? Whose tears?" "The tears of large land mammals, about our size.