Coexistence Quote by Mary Midgley

“the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same districts, require…

— Robert Harris

The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply ignores the…

— Richard Lewontin

Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really great struggle,…

— William Wallace Cook

“almost all biologists agreed that no creature could ever evolve the ability to help its species at the expense of itself. Only when the…

— Matt Ridley

“Our most important relationships are neither cooperative nor competitive. Instead, they are both. Rather than choosing a single course of action, we need to…

— Anonymous

“universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Struggle was the explanation behind all the most troubling biological mysteries: species differentiation, species extinction, and species transmutation. Struggle explained everything”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand…

— Anonymous

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“A consequence of this alienation of humans from their own nature is that they are also alienated from each other. Productive activity becomes ‘activity…

— Peter Singer

“On the one hand, our entire species survived because we stuck together and cooperated, but on the other hand we developed because the strongest…

— Fredrik Backman

“the major relational problem for our species is not getting together; protoplasm loves to join. The problem is preserving self in a close relationship.…

— Edwin H Friedman