Quotes About Symbiosis

Wenn die Blattläuse auf den Rosenzweigen sitzen und sich hübsch dick und grün gesogen haben, dann kommen die Ameisen und saugen ihnen den filtrierten Saft aus den Leibern. Und so geht's weiter, und wir haben's so weit gebracht, daß oben immer an einem Tage mehr verzehrt wird, als unten in einem beigebracht werden kann.

This," said Iucounu, "is my friend Firx, from the star Achernar, who is far wiser than he seems. Firx is annoyed at being separated from his comrade with whom he shares a vat in my workroom. He will assist you in the expeditious discharge of your duties." Iucounu stepped close, deftly thrust the creature against Cugel's abdomen. It merged into his viscera, took up a vigilant post clasped around Cugel's liver.

From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!

Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business in a different way.

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

If a tree bears sweet fruit, birds have many reasons to visit it.

If you want to know how good a tree is, examine how many birds flock to feed off of its fruit.

A star needs a star.

When Phil and I hit that one spot where I call it 'The Everly Brothers,' I don't know where it is. 'Cause it's not me and it's not him. It's the two of us together. I sing the lead, and so I can drift off. Then we'll come back in together and the whole thing happens again. It amazes me sometimes.

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.

Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what's inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food for you, without them you'd die. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited. Whatever you're thinking, a million other folks are thinking. Whatever you do, they're doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is a cooperative effort.

She said when a boy and a girl dog copulate, the head of the boy's penis swells and the vaginal muscles of the girl constrict. Even after sex, both dogs remain locked together, helpless and miserable for a brief period of time. The Mommy said this same scenario described most marriages.

Even what's inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food for you, without them you'd die. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited.

That Dragon of Heaven wanted to lose his left eye…to be just like you. But deeper still in his heart lies his true desire…and you are the only one…who can give him that. Not that you have a clue what it is! His true desire—it's not what you're thinking!

I remember thinking that they went like lovers. They could not survive without each other. It was like they had spent their lives breathing each other's breath.

If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are the desert, I am the sea; If you are the blossom, I am the bee; If you are the fruit, then I am the core; If you are the rock, then I am the ore; If you are the ballad, I am the word; If you are the sheath, then I am the sword.

Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

The truth is, has always been, and always will be that we are utterly and hopelessly dependent on each other and on nature. Nor

If I could hold light in my hand I would give it to you and watch it become your shadow. — Charles Ghigna, "Present light," Love Poems (Crane Hill Publishers, 1999)

Nature befriends those who befriend her.

A hand gets way cleaner from washing, not itself, but the other hand.

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.