Quotes About Symbiosis

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.

Even without the Interdependency, being interdependent was the best way for humanity to survive.

Remember that the plant wants to eat you," the groundskeeper said. "It's not going to let you get away. Don't fight it. Let yourself be eaten." "Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm finding your advice to be less than one hundred percent helpful

Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature.

What is not good for the beehive, cannot be good for the bees.

Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.

Pesci, non siamo altro che pesci... branchie che si gonfiano e si chiudono... poi viene un gabbiano che dall'alto ci prende e mentre ci smembra ci fa volare, forse questo è l'amore.

From the second month on, dim awareness of the need-satisfying object marks the beginning of the phase of normal symbiosis, in which the infant behaves and functions as though he and his mother were an omnipotent system—a dual unity within one common boundary.

The earth's lungs, coated in green ooze and thaw, breathed out blossom-scent and sour rot and fungus-must, wet and warm and aware, where before the air had been cold and blind, remote as the moon.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

The greatest lovers are like twin blooms, each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other.

Love is not about leading or following. Its about breathing together.

It's interesting when you're doing signing sessions with other writers and you look at the queues at each table and you can see definite human types gathering there.... My queue is always full of, you know, wild-eyed sleazebags and people who stare at me very intensely, as if I have some particular message for them. As if I must know that they've been reading me, that this dyad or symbiosis of reader and writer has been so intense that I must somehow know about it.

We are all parasites; we humans, the greatest.

My intuitive, feeling mind and my logical mind work in concert.

Moonlight and sunlight in our memory are presented before all else, not as sensory contents, but as a certain type of symbiosis, a certain manner that the outside has of invading us, a certain manner that we have of receiving it.

In a soap bubble as in an organism, what happens at each point is determined by what happens at all the others.

Você devia ser como esses passaritos que vivem nas costas do hipopótamo: ser precisado pelos grandes, mas não ser visto por ninguém.

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

Mhlengwa Zikode fixated in the Oedipus phase. His father was paralysed and Mhlengwa won the favour of both his mother and his older and only sister, who was his primary caretaker. He had a symbiotic relationship with both these women and could never really succeed in differentiating his own personality from theirs.

Volviste la espalda a la luz del día para caminar por la sombra conmigo

If it were possible for a man and his wife to share one heart, Hoonie was this steady, beating organ.

He said that woman is like the ivy-vine, Which, clinging to its oak, grows lush and tall, But, lacking that support, can't thrive at all.