Living Things Quotes - Page 9

• We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

  Tony Kushner

  Rocks, Progress, Desire

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.275, Theatre Communications Group

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• I don't think that children, if left to themselves, feel that there is an author behind a book, a somebody who wrote it. Grown-ups have fostered this quotient of identity, particularly teachers. Write a letter to your favorite author and so forth. When I was a child I never realized that there were authors behind books. Books were there as living things, with identities of their own.

  P. L. Travers

  Teacher, Children, Book

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• Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things; but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Men, Virtue, Form

  Edwin S. Shneidman (1974). “Deaths of man”, Penguin Books

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• Every living thing, animal or human, or tree experiences that which is called death, with no exception. You've all accepted that one a long time ago. Spirit, which is who we really are, or Source, is eternal. So what death must be is a changing of the perspective of that Eternal Spirit. If I am standing in my physical body and am consciously connected to that Eternal Spirit, then I'm Eternal in nature and I need not ever again fear any endedness, because, from that perspective I understand that there is not any of that.

  Esther Hicks

  Change, Animal, Perspective

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• The uncluttered arena grants every living thing its unique existence. Including me.

  John Nichol

  Unique, Arena, Existence

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• Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Atheism, Environment

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “An Outline of Philosophy”, p.31, Routledge

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• The indigenous understanding has its basis of spirituality in a recognition of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all living things, a holistic and balanced view of the world. All things are bound together. All things connect. What happens to the Earth happens to the children of the earth. Humankind has not woven the web of life; we are but one thread. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

  Rebecca Adamson

  God, Wisdom, Children

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• The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the gifts of the microscopist? Here is my opinion. The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to Think with the eyes and see with the brain. Deep revelations into the nature of living things continue to travel on beams of light.

  Daniel Mazia

  Eye, Thinking, Light

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• Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard. Levi was all soft motion and breath, curves and warm hollows. Levi's chest was a living thing.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Curves, Levi's, Scene

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.277, Pan Macmillan

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• That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Memories, Cat

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

  Brian Cox

  Stars, Heart, Dying

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• But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Humanity, Earth, May

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• We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the rains that feed the soil, so we find our courage in the pattern of living things around us. They stand through storm and tempest. They grow and renew themselves. Like a grove of young oaks, we remain strong.

  Juliet Marillier

  Strong, Rain, Storm

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• The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Echoes, Color, Faithful

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.277, Dell

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• No living thing is insignificant.

  Tony DiTerlizzi

  Insignificant

  Tony DiTerlizzi (2010). “The Search for WondLa”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.

  Gore Vidal

  Atheist, Dust, Atheism

  Gore Vidal (1965). “The City and the Pillar Revised: Including an Essay: Sex and the Law, and An Afterword”, New American Library of Canada

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• Isn’t it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living thing that looks this glorious as it’s dying?

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Thinking, Dying, Looks

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.101, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• My decision not to eat animals anymore was paramount to my growth as a spiritual person. It made me aware of greed and made me more sensitive to cruelty. It made me feel like I was contributing to making the world better and that I was connected to everything around me. I felt like I was part of the whole by respecting every living thing rather than using it and destroying it by living unconsciously. Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

  Portia de Rossi

  Spiritual, Love Yourself, Healing

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Sea, Names

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• He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.

  William Golding

  Exercise, Mastery, Tides

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.42, Hamilton Books

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• God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love, a cooperation with nature, whereas Satan's use of force for the sake of getting gain renders the earth uninhabitable. Brigham Young's views on the environment direct attention to man's responsibility to beautify the earth, to eradicate the influences of harmful substances, and to use restraint, that the earth may return to its paradisiacal glory.

  Hugh Nibley

  Responsibility, Men, Views

  Hugh Nibley, Don E. Norton, Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (1994). “Brother Brigham challenges the Saints”, Deseret Book Co

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• When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing she had ever known. The earth was flat and brown, a field of dirt as barren as the moon, a single road stretching in the distance. the last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. Then they disappeared, and there was nothing left but nothing.

  Dan Wells

  Distance, Fall, Moon

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• I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Sports, Art, Hate

  Frankenstein ch. 10 (1818)

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• The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Survival, Kind

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• In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.

  W. S. Merwin

  Rain, Garden, Rivers

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