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Quotes About Symbiosis

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.
~ Kohta Hirano
It is we who are the parasites, and Earth the host
~ Carl Zimmer
Only man stripped the skins from other beasts and wore their hides and hair.
~ George R.R. Martin
Esto es lo que debe ser, la luz y la oscuridad juntas, dos mitades formando una unidad.
~ J.R. Ward
We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day.
~ Jack Gilbert
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
~ Thomas Huxley
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
~ Plutarch
Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.
~ Tobias Smollett
Hinduism cannot live without Buddhism, nor Buddhism without Hinduism. Then realise what the separation has shown to us, that the Buddhists cannot stand without the brain and philosophy of the Brahmins, nor the Brahmin without the heart of the Buddhist.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
~ Tabare Vazquez
Cheryl and spiders: It kind of just goes together now.
~ Cheryl Hayashi
The way a human can coexist with nature has to be at the spiritual level.
~ Ma Yansong
Like two arms of a snowflake, Mind and Matter grew out of a common center—and even though they grew independently and without communicating—each developing according to its own internal rules—nevertheless they grew in perfect harmony, and share the same shape and structure.
~ Neal Stephenson
the Ultimate Truth: nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes, Sevastyan thought his leopard, whom he affectionally called Shturm, meaning assault, would end his life by literally ripping him open and climbing out of him rather than shifting the normal way they exchanged forms.
~ Christine Feehan
London and its people are parasites trapped in an ever-evolving symbiosis. At night the residents lose their carapace of gentility, bragging and brawling through the streets.
~ Christopher Fowler
London and its people are parasites trapped in an ever-evolving symbiosis. At night the residents lose their carapace of gentility, bragging and brawling through the streets. The old London emerges, dancing drunk skeletons leaving graveyard suburbs to terrify the faint of heart.
~ Christopher Fowler
There are miraculous relationships between beings and things; in this inexhaustible whole, from sun to aphid, no one looks down on anyone else; everyone needs each other. Light
~ Victor Hugo
Merging like two drops of water. Together in a way that humans could never know.
~ L.J. Smith
And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating.
~ Cassandra Clare
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events.
~ Gian-Carlo Rota
Quiero tener ese hijo tuyo, amor. Dárteme desde dentro de mi vientre en una nueva prolongación de tu inmortalidad. Mostrarte hasta dónde puede crecer mi vida, como un árbol, si tú la riegas; hasta dónde puedo llegar a dárteme en todas las formas, en todos los momentos conscientes e inconscientes, llegar a ser tu río, tu sombra, la almohada suave donde apoyar tu cabeza, el viento, el mar, la risa, la mañana, tu cama, tu suelo, tu mujer.
~ Gioconda Belli
I would bet the most perfect peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich ever assembled that there are more well-adjusted people around today than people who aren't and I think it is damn tragic more of us do not appear in books. 3 symbiosis, n.
~ Glendon Swarthout