Best Living Things Words
178 Living Things quotes by 151 unique authors
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You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are conscious living things.…
— John F. Carlson
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There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance.…
— Eugene J. Martin
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I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart…
— Gifford Pinchot
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The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.
— John Muir
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Why would you want to keep the bluebird houses mounted in a place that you now know is unsafe for them? Bluebirds are not ornaments…
— Kathy Griffin
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Wine makes all things possible. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, The Mystery Knight A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees…
— George R. R. Martin
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To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do.
— Paul Davies
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes.
— Richard Dawkins
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On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as…
— Roger Ebert
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It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living…
— Ivan Pavlov
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Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
— Albert Schweitzer
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Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The rooms of his apartment were full with the dog home again, convalescing. He was satisfied to know, even when she was out of sight,…
— Lydia Millet
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Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether…
— Jane Roberts
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People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never…
— Michael Crichton
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I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you,…
— Marcel Proust
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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and…
— Yann Martel
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I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom…
— Pablo Neruda
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When I glanced at the chair, it started to shake. I’d like to think it was scared of me, but I rarely invoked that response…
— Kelley Armstrong
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But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here…
— Bill Bryson
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Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against…
— Cesar Chavez
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Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its…
— Patricia A. McKillip
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