Quotes About Symbiosis

If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!

Each cell of a living organism cooperates with the cell next to it. It does not need any sentiment or declarations of undying love to do so. Each cell is wise enough to know that if its neighbour goes, it also goes. The cells stick together not out of brotherhood, love and that kind of thing, but out of the urgent drive to survive.   It is the same with us, but only in a larger scale. Soon we will all come to know one simple thing: if I try to destroy you, I will also be destroyed.

Our conclusion: this Helper Symbiosis is just another messianic religion, another screwball empire excusing its excesses and attempting to trick those it cannot directly coerce. Don't be fooled! Crypto:

If we approach Nature with , it will serve us as our best friend, a friend that won't let us down.

We can get by on land only by carrying a huge amount of salt water around with us.

They always say 'Oh yes, you have a Kan-Ban system, we do also. You have quality circles, we do also. Your people fill out standard work descriptions, ours do also.' They all see the parts and have copied the parts. What they do not see is the way all the parts work together.

By losing myself to her, I gain her.

No practice exists in isolation.

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

Cosas que parecen opuestas pueden de hecho estar trabajando juntas.

Es necesario notar – dice Rumi – que cosas antagónicas trabajan juntas, aunque nominalmente sean opuestas.

La vida: algunas veces, el hombre sobre la montura; algunas veces, la montura sobre el hombre.

Blood, for a mosquito, is a delicacy. They otherwise feed on the nectar of flowers.

Why do ants alone have parasites whose intoxicating moistures they drink and for whom they will sacrifice even their young? Because as they are the most highly socialized of insects, so their lives are the most intolerable.

The director is as good as the actor and vice versa.

the natural world seemed to absorb the poison in me.

Vivre d'un troupeau, c'est en grande partie le parasiter quelle que soit la préocupation qu'on ait de son bien-être. Nous sommes à la fois le législatif et l'exécutif. On ne peut enfermer des animaux dans une étreinte intéressée sans aller à l'encontre de leur nature. La démarche soucieuse de vivre avec et non de peut déjà atténuer l'arbitraire. Il s'agit alors de vivre des réciprocités. (p.238)

The fact that the tube worms have managed to live in the intertidal zone for perhaps millions of years is evidence of a sensitive adjustment of their way of life, on the one hand to conditions within the surrounding world of the rockweeds, on the other to vast tidal rhythms linked with the movements of earth, moon, and sun.

If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me anywhere.

turned me away from him and fitted himself to my back so we lay nested together.

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

Entertainment and information work well together.

The human mind gives color to the Earth's mind; the Earth's mind gives color to the human mind.