Quotes About Symbiosis

So there they go, Jim running slower to stay with Will, Will running faster to stay with Jim

Which is why we say I can't live without you meaning your life gives life to me, who am otherwise an empty vessel, nameless.

Es ist uns ein bißchen peinlich", sagte Golgo, "daß etwas so Hochgeistiges wie Lesen bei uns mit etwas so Profanen wie Verdauung einhergeht. Aber so ist das nun mal. Wir ernähren uns vom Leben!

We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.

Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about.

As cliche as it sounds you complete me and I complete you

I saw him as the supplier of my life. In a dream, in a hole, I saw the great snake of life, devouring its own tail. Life eats life, the image of the snake seemed to tell me. Life devours itself. You are part of this, and so is Gup. The snake is the whip in my father;s hand. The whip is in my hand and reaches from my bloodied back to whip my father's hand. The torturer and the tortured are each playing a part and cannot be without the other.

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.

Action and knowledge are not obstacles to each other.

The planting of [orchards] represents a reduction of a complex ecology into the monocultural grid of modern agriculture, and the transformation of a complex symbiosis with the land into the simpler piecework or agricultural labour for surplus and export.

I speculate that we shall come to accept the more radical idea that each one of our genes is a symbiotic unit. We are gigantic colonies of symbiotic genes.

Fig trees and fig wasps share an intimate cooperative relationship. The fig that you eat is not really a fruit. There is a tiny hole at the end, and if you go into this hole (you'd have to be as small as a fig wasp to do so, and they are minute: thankfully too small to notice when you eat a fig), you find hundreds of tiny flowers lining the walls. The fig is a dark indoor hothouse for flowers, an indoor pollination chamber. And the only agents that can do the pollinating are fig wasps.

It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

In nature nothing exists alone.

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

When we work with nature instead of trying to impose our will, the solution is often found within the problem.

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.

It turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.

Man is embedded in nature.

The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.