Living Things Quotes

178 quotes by 156 authors

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. — Italo Calvino
In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin… — W S Merwin
The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again… — William Beebe
I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that… — Adrienne Rich
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the… — Cyril Connolly
Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from… — Jean-Michel Cousteau
Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we… — Marcello Malpighi
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing… — Marya Mannes
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started… — William Golding
I think there will come a time when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that have preceded it;… — Dennis Weaver
A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients… — William Gilbert
About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by… — George Wald
Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium. — Thomas Huxley
The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears. ...… — Marcello Malpighi
Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society. — Cesar Chavez
Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation… — Theodore Holmes Bullock
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in… — Charles Thom
Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment." — William Thomas Councilman
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to… — Roderick Murchison
Living Things. The garden can be as unlimited a resource as you want it to be. It's an escape from everything if you just want… — Hazel Hawke

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