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Quotes About Symbiosis

He feeds her his worlds.
~ Alain de Botton
Flowers make themselves fragrant and offer nectar. Why? To nourish the bees or to get themselves pollinated? Or both? In nature, to get you have to give. There is no charity. There is no exploitation, neither selfishness nor selflessness. One grows by helping others grow. Is that not the perfect society?
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Civilization comes into being when the small fish is rescued from the big fish; civilization comes to an end when the fish keeps growing bigger than its pond.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Have you ever loved someone and it became yourself?
~ Djuna Barnes
Love of two things often makes one thing right. Think of the fish racing the sea, their love of air and water turning them like wheels, their tails and teeth biting the water, their spines curved round the air.
~ Djuna Barnes
Symbiosis is a much higher reflection of intelligent life.
~ Frederick Lenz
The bodies of a man and his dog fused together, skin and fur melded. Nobody wanted to die alone.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Nesmíme také zapomenout, že masochistické ponížení není opakem sadismu, ale sou?ástí symbiotického systému, v nÄ›mž úplné ovládání a úplné pokoÃ…â"¢ení jsou projevy téže hluboce uložené neschopnosti prožívat plnÄ› sv?j život.
~ Erich Fromm
Shit and cabbage always go hand in hand,' Percival Schuttenbach said pithly. 'One drives the other. It's a perpetum mobile.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Man and God act together. Surely we can all agree with Solomon.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
We did not domesticate wheat; wheat domesticated us.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.
~ Alan Weisman
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
~ Aldous Huxley
Music and art and philosophy are ultimately based on the premise that this man on his tractor, and these pigs, and the swarms of bees that fertilise the crops, will all continue to do what they do.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
~ Alexandre Dumas
the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Have you noticed that everything in Nature, gives back to Nature?
~ Donald L. Hicks
When you nurture Nature, Nature nurtures you.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Today it is widely recognized that the cells of animals were once a wild party of two if not three ancient beings: the oxygen-poisoned archaeon host, the oxygen-using bacteria that became mitochondria, and perhaps wildly squirming spirochetes, which abound in anaerobic environments.
~ Dorion Sagan
Evolution can work through competition, but it can work through cooperation also. Take a beehive.
~ Douglas E. Richards
The most successful of biology's creatures coexist in mutually beneficial ecosystems.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Art should become as one with its surroundings.
~ Isamu Noguchi
Life doesn't happen to us, but happens with us.
~ Shefali Tsabary
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.
~ Lawrence Anthony