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title: "21 Living Organism Quotes by 21 authors"
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> [Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claude-bernard/now-a-living-organism-is-nothing-but-a-wonderful-machine-endowed-with/)

[Claude Bernard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claude-bernard/)

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> [Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-slade/film-becomes-a-living-organism-after-awhile-it-begins-to-tell-you/)

[David Slade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-slade/)

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> [“She could not help but feel that paying money to take ownership of a living organism was inappropriate.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/she-could-not-help-but-feel-that-paying-money-to-take-ownership-of-a/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-jung/life-is-teleology-par-excellence-it-is-the-intrinsic-striving-towards/)

[Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-jung/)

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> [A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/a-tree-is-a-wonderful-living-organism-which-gives-shelter-food-warmth/)

[Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/)

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> [I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-plimpton/i-prefer-to-think-of-the-audience-as-a-single-living-organism-with/)

[Martha Plimpton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-plimpton/)

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> [Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/every-living-organism-is-fulfilled-when-it-follows-the-right-path-for/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

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> [The life force knows exactly what it takes to keep any particular living organism - any organism - alive. Anything in manifestation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lindsay-wagner/the-life-force-knows-exactly-what-it-takes-to-keep-any-particular/)

[Lindsay Wagner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lindsay-wagner/)

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> [“For me, Buddhism is like a living organism. If it is to flourish outside self-enclosed ghettos of believers, it will have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-batchelor/for-me-buddhism-is-like-a-living-organism-if-it-is-to-flourish/)

[Stephen Batchelor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-batchelor/)

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> [New York City is a living organism; It evolves, it devolves, it fluctuates as a living organism. So my relationship with New…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-levitch/new-york-city-is-a-living-organism-it-evolves-it-devolves-it/)

[Timothy Levitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-levitch/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b71/timothy-levitch-59846_cities_new-york-city-is-a-living-organism-it-ev_1945819.jpg)

> [Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucius-annaeus-seneca/everything-is-the-product-of-one-universal-creative-effort-there-is/)

[Lucius Annaeus Seneca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucius-annaeus-seneca/)

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> [“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-methos/think-of-the-earth-as-a-living-organism-that-is-being-attacked-by/)

[Victor Methos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-methos/)

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> [“A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/a-dying-organism-is-often-observed-to-be-capable-of-extraordinary/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [ \[A living organism\] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-schrodinger/a-living-organism-feeds-upon-negative-entropy-thus-the-device-by/)

[Erwin Schrodinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erwin-schrodinger/)

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> [Where I'm just sort of shocked into the revelation, once again, of this planet is a living organism; this living thing, being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daphne-zuniga/where-i-m-just-sort-of-shocked-into-the-revelation-once-again-of-this/)

[Daphne Zuniga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daphne-zuniga/)

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> [“Our responsibility, as individual cells of a living organism, is to perform our individual functions as well as possible. Our orders come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-s-williams/our-responsibility-as-individual-cells-of-a-living-organism-is-to/)

[Paul S. Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-s-williams/)

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> [“A living organism does the best it can with its given situation. If a root encounters a stone, it grows around it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bagby/a-living-organism-does-the-best-it-can-with-its-given-situation-if-a/)

[David Bagby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bagby/)

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> [The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iain-mcgilchrist/the-genome-was-once-thought-to-be-just-the-blueprint-for-a-living/)

[Iain McGilchrist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iain-mcgilchrist/)

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> [There is one living organism, called a tardigrade, that has survived the five great mass extinctions on Earth, and it can survive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alycia-debnam-carey-2/there-is-one-living-organism-called-a-tardigrade-that-has-survived/)

[Alycia Debnam Carey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alycia-debnam-carey-2/)

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> [Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/hinduism-is-a-living-organism-one-and-indivisible-at-the-root-it-has/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [Earth is a living entity. And if it's a living organism, then we have to have a reverence for all life. Food…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/satish-kumar/earth-is-a-living-entity-and-if-it-s-a-living-organism-then-we-have/)

[Satish Kumar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/satish-kumar/)

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