Living Things Quotes - Page 6

• The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Ignorance, Achievement

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• It is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.

  Philip Guston

  Thinking, Each Day, Paint

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• I love motorcycles and riding bikes. Like a lot of riders, I look at a bike like it's an iron horse - a living thing that you have to build a relationship with - and that bike is my horse.

  Diego Sanchez

  Horse, Iron, Motorcycle

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• How much is enough? How much does anyone require? Can I be both kind and tough? Can I put faith before desire? Right now, for all time, I vow to try . . . I volunteer to be simple, I volunteer to love, Every living thing like a mountain stream that flows out o'er the land. I volunteer for the journey from here to heaven's gate. I will do my part I place my heart in Your gracious hands . . . How then shall we live? Let us live lightly as a feather. How much shall we give? Let us give everything, together One heart, one mind, all humankind... I volunteer.

  Alan AtKisson

  Heart, Simple, Journey

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• Food is art, I believe. If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way.

  Bryan Fuller

  Art, Believe, Preparation

  "'Hannibal' producer Bryan Fuller on cannibal cuisine, renewal and more". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 19, 2013.

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• If you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things. You're not really honoring the life.

  Bryan Fuller

  Mcdonalds, Hamburgers, Affront

  "‘Hannibal’ producer Bryan Fuller on cannibal cuisine, renewal and more". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 19, 2013.

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• Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

  John Steinbeck

  World, Life Or Death, Lordship

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.147, Penguin

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• Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men,
  Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars
  Makest to teem the many-voyaged main
  And fruitful lands- for all of living things
  Through thee alone are evermore conceived,
  Through thee are risen to visit the great sun-
  Before thee, Goddess, and thy coming on,
  Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away,
  For thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers,
  For thee waters of the unvexed deep
  Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky
  Glow with diffused radiance for thee!

  Lucretius

  Mother, Stars, Flower

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.181, Delphi Classics

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• We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Chance, Existence, Improbable

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.51, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Feel the love of God; then in every person you will see the face of the Father, the light of love which is in all. You will find a magic, living relationship uniting the trees, the sky, the stars, all people, and all living things; and you will feel a oneness with them. This is the code of divine love.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Stars, Father, Light

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• Perhaps the whole world is actually a banquet, to which every living thing is invited. First you come as guests: then eventually you're on the menu.

  David Suzuki

  World, Guests, Firsts

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• Language is a living thing

  Gilbert Highet

  Language

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• The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.

  E.S. Russell

  Clay, Musician, Potters

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• While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Trying, Identity

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Money is a living thing.

  Jae Hee

  Drama

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• Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be precise. These experiences opened my mind to the idea of a Creator and that caring for other living things was a Christian duty. My parents were not strongly religious at the time and when I announced at that youthful age that I wanted to be a priest, it not unnaturally provoked some incredulity, even mirth. In the same year, I became a vegetarian, which--for family and friends--was even more vexing.

  Andrew Linzey

  Christian, Religious, Caring

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• There is a world of created beings - living things, animals, entelechies, and souls - in the least part of matter.... Thus there is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Animal, Confusion, Soul

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• Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about by human action or by brute nature, what we think of the value of human life compared to that of other living things.

  Dale Jamieson

  Thinking, Challenges, Environmental

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Tradition, Stationary, Developing

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are so beautiful and elegant and so apparently purposeful, they could only have been made by an intelligent designer. But [Charles] Darwin provided a simpler explanation. His way is a gradual, incremental improvement starting from very simple beginnings and working up step by tiny incremental step to more complexity, more elegance, more adaptive perfection.

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Powerful, Intelligent

  Source: inters.org

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• I'm not into killing living things, you know, but I'll always have guns.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Gun, Killing, Knows

  Source: www.jonathanrosenbaum.net

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• Hundreds and thousands of young people around the world can break through and can make this a better world for all living things. Once young people know the problems and are empowered to act, they have great power to impact the world.

  Jane Goodall

  Break Through, Impact, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

  Bill Nye

  Meaning Of Life, Life Is, Strive

  "BioLogos Interviews Bill Nye". Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing.

  Brad Willis

  Grace, Vulnerable, Feels

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Compassion, Circles

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