Best Living Things Quotations
178 Living Things quotes by 151 unique authors
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Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that…
— Marianne Williamson
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The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.
— E. O. Wilson
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Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to…
— Maria Montessori
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Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.
— Kim Stanley
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Study the behavior of animals and you will understand human psychology and sociology. Study a flower excited under sunlight, and you will understand how all…
— Suzy Kassem
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Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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In Islam, all living things have souls. We are made pure by the fire of the lord compassion.
— John Speed
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Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms -…
— Robert Fulghum
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All living things on earth are kindred.
— Edward Abbey
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All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary…
— Edward Abbey
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On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Yes, yes: Taking out Saddam Hussein means war, and war is bad for children and other living things. I went to grade school in the…
— Dan Savage
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There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within…
— Murray Bookchin
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I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead…
— Orson Scott Card
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The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt…
— Rebecca Solnit
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In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential,…
— Georges Rouault
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If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms…
— Lucretius
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Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the…
— Rene Dubos
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We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If…
— Miranda July
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Words are living things. They have personality, point of view... agenda.
— Hannibal
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O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest the earth as…
— Saint Basil
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All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not created primarily for…
— Tony Campolo
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Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished…
— Eric Hoffer
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There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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