Quotes About Symbiosis

The bees are very attentive to the flowers until their honey is done, and then they fly over them. I don't know if the flowers feel grateful to the bees, they are great fools if they do.

They remind me of mistletoe, which is never ours, though we wear it," said Emily to me.

It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life, Leaves are not more shed from the trees, or trees from the earth, than they are shed out of you.

The people who were comfortable at this humanities-technology intersection helped to create the human-machine symbiosis that is at the core of this story.

clave para la innovación: es necesario comprender qué industrias son simbióticas para poder evaluar de qué manera puede una estimular a la otra.

Licklider helped chart that course back in 1960 in his paper "Man-Computer Symbiosis," which proclaimed: "Human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.

I'm one half of a two-piece puzzle." Ashley spoke again. "What's the best part?" "When she laughs…I smile. And when she cries, tears roll down my cheeks." He nodded. "I wouldn't trade that for…for nothing.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them.

Why does the orange blossom kiss the breeze? Because the breeze first kisses the orange blossom.

In reality, plants are farming humans — giving us oxygen until we eventually decompose so they can consume us.

They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.

We need nature, but nature does not need us.

All animal life ultimately depends on plants if you think about

A dynamic duo who work well together can be worth any three people working in isolation.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and the linking of ancestral organisms in symbiosis. Our genomes are catalogues of instructions from all kinds of sources in nature, filed for all kinds of contingencies.

As long as we are all incorporated within offense and everybody's eating, we're good.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

I could not walk except with you, ...I could not sing except when you sing.

The balanced rhythm of the universe is rooted in reciprocity

obligate endosymbiosis