Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get. — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms. — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is an inflow of vital power, which is received by all living organisms during sleep … this vital energy is the… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too… — Tom Hornbein Copy Share Image
If humans are organisms like every other organism - which they are - then we should expect that if there are some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the… — S. R. Ranganathan Copy Share Image
Where I'm just sort of shocked into the revelation, once again, of this planet is a living organism; this living thing, being… — Daphne Zuniga Copy Share Image
[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The huge arrogance of the companies developing GMO crops and their determination to destroy the line of accountability which links the developer… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You have to understand that it's a very cooperative world, not only with the environment, with but our fellow human beings. If… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
A leader who accepts the outside financing of his movement is like the man who accustoms his body to live on medication.… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
The Primal Plant is going be the strangest creature in the world, which Nature herself must envy me. With this model and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority… — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
I like the process of giving control away [at the recording]. When you give it up to people, it's another intelligent organism… — Pantha du Prince Copy Share Image
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Perhaps art is simply an organism's reaction against its retentive limitations. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
There's nothing like evolution for engineering beautiful organisms. — Frances Arnold Copy Share Image
Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every organism exists as a vehicle for the ennoblement of water into consciousness. — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
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