Autonomous Quote by Richard Levins

“An organism exists in its environment in only one mode, that of an open system responding to those segments of its environment to which…

— Walker Percy

In our evolutionary narratives, the organism itself often seems to play a passive role: a powerless victim, almost, of changes to its environment or…

— Alice Roberts

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most…

— Claude Bernard

An organism without its nature is a being outside the Nature, which, technically, is not realizable in the very near existence of our Universe.

— Mariana Fulger

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

A vital force is active in every individual and leads it towards its own evolution.

— Maria Montessori

An organism exists for no other reason than that it is able to... The wonderful, almost transcendent thing about life on earth is that…

— Richard Mabey

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

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

— Carl Rogers

No creature needs to be threatened with death to act in accord with its own nature

— Christopher Ryan

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

— Kevin Kelly

“Living forms are not in being, they are happening, they are the expression of a perpetual stream of matter and energy which passes through…

— Bertalanffy Ludwig Von