Quotes About Symbiosis

A star needs a star.

All swallows all. Life must eat life to survive.

The real wisdom is the realzation of the truth that our world is neither perfect nor evolving gradually to perfection over the centuries yet to come. It is what it is, and we must accept it as it is, with its good and bad as well as beauty and ugliness that coexist symbiotically since the dawn of universe.

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

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

Lying perfectly still, they would gaze at each other in thick exhaustion and nothing would seem to divide them: they could float inside each other freely as fish drifting through windows of underwater castles.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. There were no mutual concessions; one stood erect, and the others yielded;

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. 

Cherries suit robins;

No symbiotic corals are fully autotrophic or heterotrophic, but are mixotrophic, utilizing both methods of feeding.

If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.

The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

The role of cinema here is not that of a servant nor is it to betray the painting. Rather it is to provide it with a new form of existence. The film of a painting is an aesthetic symbiosis of screen and painting, as is the lichen of the algae and mushroom. To be annoyed by this is as ridiculous as to condemn the opera on behalf of theater and music.

It's a squad of trees that will eventually make a forest, it's a squad of stars that will eventually make one less day, it's a squad of one­-less-­days that will eventually make up my life.

The film of a painting is an aesthetic symbiosis of screen and painting, as is the lichen of the algae and mushroom. To be annoyed by this is as ridiculous as to condemn the opera on behalf of theater and music.

Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.

To get to know someone so different from myself as an octopus, and to know that the individual recognised me and even enjoyed my company, was an enormous privilege. The octopuses I came to know were strong but gentle, and the suction of their suckers tasting my skin pulled me like an alien's kiss.

native: a plant or animal that has evolved in a given place over a period of time sufficient to develop complex and essential relationships with the physical environment and other organisms in a given ecological community.

It is virtually impossible to understand how biology works outside the context of environment.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.