Living Things Quotes - Page 13

• A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

  William Dobell

  Art, Faithful, Trying

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• Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

  Dmitry Glukhovsky

  Killing, Humans

  Dmitry Glukhovsky (2014). “METRO 2033: The cult bestseller behind the METRO LAST LIGHT and METRO 2033 video games”, p.8, Dmitry Glukhovskiy

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• Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."

  William Thomas Councilman

  Science, Environmental, May

  William Thomas Councilman (1913). “Disease and its causes”

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• She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.

  Nancy Price

  Life, Weed, Eye

  Nancy Price (1991). “Sleeping with the enemy”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, People, Violence

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

  Norman Cousins

  Death, Heart, Compassion

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• Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Christian, Horse, Struggle

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• The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

  Judith Butler

  Effort, Violence, Language

  Judith Butler (2013). “Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative”, p.19, Routledge

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• A baby is like the beginning of all things: wonder, hope a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its earth to concrete, babies are almost the only remaining link in nature, with the natural world of living things from which we spring.

  Eda LeShan

  Inspiring, Dream, Baby

  Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

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• Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain.

  Theodore Holmes Bullock

  Nature, Science, Two

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• In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.

  Albert Camus

  Brother, Light, Sky

  "The Rebel". Book by Albert Camus, 1951.

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• Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.

  Mark Udall

  Business, Rights, Law

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• Solicitous care for living things affords satisfaction to one of the most lively instincts of the child's mind. Nothing is better calculated than this to awaken an attitude of foresight.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Attitude, Mind

  Maria Montessori (2004). “The Discovery of the Child”, p.92, Aakar Books

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• Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

  Kim Stanley

  Desire, Trying, Life Is

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• Everyone needs love, never hurt a living thing [and] don’t worry about the choices you make because everything will be fun because life is a closet filled with pool toys.

  Amy Poehler

  Hurt, Fun, Worry

  "Amy Poehler: 'I loved cocaine but eventually hated it' - actress opens up about her drugs past" by Katy Forrester, www.mirror.co.uk. October 14, 2014.

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• We can make these three dynamic words - "reverence for life" - a part of our lives by becoming aware that God is the source of all life and that we are one with life. "The good person," said Schweitzer, "is the friend of all living things."

  Wilferd Peterson

  Life, Three, Becoming

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• I have made a sculpture … you will never be finished with it – when you pass around it or see it against the sky… something new goes on all the time… together with the sun, the light and the clouds, it makes a living thing.

  Jørn Utzon

  Sky, Clouds, Light

  Jørn Utzon, Christian Norberg-Schulz (1980). “Sydney Opera House: Sydney, Australia, 1957-73”

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• Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.

  C. J. Dennis

  Nature, Morning, Laughter

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• Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that design is a love for all living things.

  Marianne Williamson

  Design, Trying, Flow

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 23, 2011

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• Thoughts are living things - they travel far.

  Swami Vivekananda

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• Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a legion upon the dark rooftops. The wind came down from the north like a runner in lacrosse, violent and hard, to batter every living thing. They were there, each one alone in conversation with the stars, mining ephemeral love from cold and distant light.

  Mark Helprin

  Stars, Dark, Light

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• God isn't a noun but a process...a continual, infinitely creative outpouring of love and light onto all living things.

  Marianne Williamson

  Light, Creative, Nouns

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Dec 04, 2011

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• Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.

  Isaac Asimov

  Thinking, People, Devil

  Isaac Asimov (1977). “The beginning and the end”, Pocket

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• Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.

  Richard Allen

  Australia, Tree, Treasure

  Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.14, The Miegunyah Press

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• The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over 4 billion years of biological evolution. Incidentally, all the organisms on the Earth are made essentially of that stuff. An eyedropper full of that liquid could be used to make a caterpillar or a petunia if only we knew how to put the components together.

  Carl Sagan

  Years, Together, Atoms

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 5: "Blues For a Red Planet", 1990.

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