Living Things Quotes

“Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which to frame them. She was nineteen years old, or thereabouts; her exact age was unknown. Her face was as fresh as an apple and as delicate as blossom, but a marked depression in the bones beneath her left eye gave her features a disturbing asymmetry. Her mouth never curved into a smile. God, it seemed, had withheld that possibility, as surely as from a blind man the power of sight. He had withheld much else. Amparo was touched—by genius, by madness, by the Devil, or by a conspiracy of all these and more. She took no sacraments and appeared incapable of prayer. She had a horror of clocks and mirrors. By her own account she spoke with Angels and could hear the thoughts of animals and trees. She was passionately kind to all living things. She was a beam of starlight trapped in flesh and awaiting only the moment when it would continue on its journey into forever.” (p.33)”
― Tim Willocks, The Religion

“Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward — and everything turns together in the same direction at the same time. This vibration keeps going: it becomes born and expands or closes and destructs — only to repeat the cycle again in opposite current. Like a lotus, it opens or closes, dies and is born again. Such is also the story of the sun and moon, of me and you. Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.”
― Murray Bookchin, Post-Scarcity Anarchism

“The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“No living thing is ugly in this world. Even a tarantula considers itself beautiful”
― Munia Khan

“Let your autobiography contain these words; "I was able to think positively, love affectionately and work efficiently". Thinking, loving and working are what make us different from animals and trees.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, like seashells. But seashells are just illusions of the things that once used to live inside of them, that are back in the sea! They are dead things, and dead things are not simple things. Living things are simple things, things like love. People think that love isn't simple, but that's because they are on the seashore; but when you are a mermaid, when you have gills, when you need to be in the ocean; love is simple. It's about being beside someone and staying there. And then sharing your souls. What's natural to a mermaid, isn't natural to a person. But I want everyone to be a mermaid. And if they can't, at least they can know what a mermaid is like. We live with the things that are alive.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Every living thing is precious somehow.”
― T.A. Barron, The Seven Songs of Merlin

“Everything turns, rotates, spins, circles, loops, pulsates, resonates, and repeats.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Every living thing moves on the surface of the earth.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Non-living things are not living, yet they live longer than the living.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“There is vast sea of all kind of creatures.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There was a florist at the corner, closed for the night. I stopped in my tracks. Along with the heavy branches of lilacs and tangled stems of forsythia was a fluffy mound of tiny sleeping chicks- a living, breathing Easter basket. Paris continued to surprise me; instead of the slick consumerism of a twenty-first-century world capital, it was the little things, the living things, that made me smile.”
― Elizabeth Bard, Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes

“All living things including man are interdependence upon each other.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Man was the last of Creation but was given the duty to care for the Earth and all other created living creatures.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Increase is natural, not just to man, but also to all living things”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Every living creature breathes.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“There are two types of egoism: one is living and other one is lifeless. As long as the living egoism is there, one can never attain the awareness of the Self (Atma).”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Parents who call their children beasts have indirectly answered same because living things reproduce according to their kind.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“We now know that all extant living creatures derive from a single common ancestor, called the 'Last Universal Common Ancestor' (LUCA). It’s hard to think of a more unifying view of life. All living things are linked to a single-celled creature, the deepest root to the complex-branching tree of life. If we could play the movie of life backward, we would find this microscopic primogenitor at the starting point of biological evolution, the sole actor in what would become a very dramatic story, lasting some 3.5 billion years leading to us.”
― Alex M. Vikoulov, NOOGENESIS: Computational Biology

“The Divine Being, God gives breath to all living things.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Deceit stems in all living things.”
― DON SANTO

“You strong-arm your way through the world, taking what you want and shoving people around, threatening and yelling and demanding they obey you... That's not how earth magic works. You can't just barrel your way into a living thing, exert control through brute force, and expect it to cooperate with you.”
― Elle Cosimano, Seasons of Chaos

“This is Epipremnum aureum... commonly known as devil's ivy. It's nearly impossible to kill. Its heart-shaped leaves stay green, growing to surprising lengths, even when it's kept in the dark. This species climbs by clinging to the surfaces. It's been known to cover entire forest floors, suffocating entire ecosystems. And its leaves, deceptively harmless in appearance, are deadly to weaker species. So you see," she says with a menacing smile, "she doesn't need you to COMMAND her. She's perfectly capable of hanging you, suffocating you, or sickening you all on her own, with or without your consent or participation.”
― Elle Cosimano, Seasons of Chaos

“God gives life to all living things.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I have
never been much good with living things.
Brightness and darkness I do rather well with.”
― Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

“I believe in human biophilia. I believe that an affinity with other living things, a desire to be near and connect with them, and a love of natural beauty are in our DNA. How to square this, though, with what anyone living in our day can see: the human drive to make the world increasingly ugly, and in the end, to trash it.”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

“Much as I'd always enjoyed the balm of the plants and flowers, it had never occurred to me to aspire to work in here. I suppose I've been so single-mindedly committed to the animals, with their flesh-and-blood needs and their inescapable demands, that these other gentler living things have been obscured to me. I regret that now. There was always so much more than I have allowed myself to see.”
― Emma Sloley, The Island of Last Things