Acting Quote by Rene Dubos

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

— Kevin Kelly

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

— Claude Bernard

Intensities are implicated multiplicities, 'implexes,' made up of relations between asymmetrical elements.

— Gilles Deleuze

Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their…

— Lev S. Vygotsky

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

— Kevin Kelly

The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own…

— John Dewey

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to…

— Anonymous

All organs of an animal form a single system, the parts of which hang together, and act and re-act upon one another; and no…

— Georges Cuvier

For the fact is that organisms are creative and make their environments in such a way as to become virtually part of it themselves.…

— Peter Dickens

Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A system is a set of things people, cells, molecules, or whatever interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of…

— Donella Meadows

“diverse, connected, interdependent entities whose behavior is determined by rules, which may adapt, but need not. The interactions of these entities often produce phenomena…

— Scott E. Page