Animals Quote by Gregory Bateson Download Open image “The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.” — Gregory Bateson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animals Creatures Environment Inspirational Nature Winning
A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction...… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the… — Menander Copy Share Image
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Everyone says destroy what destroys you,right ? But what if the thing destroying you is yourself ? — Unkown Copy Share Image
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception,… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he wasn't quite… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life” — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. It differs, however, from most other branches of human activity in… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life,… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I bet plants go like 'Weeeeeeeee!' whenever they're swallowed by a giraffe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image