Quotes of: Living-organisms Keyword

[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East Harlem] says. 'They contain people with real ability, wonderful people many of them, but the typical sequence is that in the course of organization l...

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Whether we do it consciously or subconsciously, we tend to organize our lives to display our identity as accurately as possible. Our lifestyle choices often reveal our values, or at least what we’d like people to perceive as our values…as we make...

The Art of Choosing

Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs. An octopus is nothing like a mouse, and both are quite different from an oak tree. Yet in their fundamental chemistry they are rather uniform, and, in...

The Selfish Gene

I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thing of starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and time to fully bloom, and, as such, seen best not in its callow youth but...

The Letter

One of the most momentous, yet all but invisible, psychological changes in human history has been the intensification of a sense of insecurity and alienation from the world around us that arose when we became no longer able easily to get food in a fe...

The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China

Take the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the earth and scale it down to a single year, with January 1 being the origin of the earth and midnight on December 31 being the present. Until June, the only organisms were single-celled microbes, such as ...

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Signs imply ways of living, possibilities of existence, they are the symptoms of an overflowing (jaillissante) or exhausted (épuisée) life. But an artist cannot be content with an exhausted life, nor with a personal life. One does not write with on...

Gilles Deleuze

Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it is no cause for wonder that this suitability is found in all species that exist today? Chance, o...

Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis

So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their re...

Shannon L. Alder

Our categories are important. We cannot organize a social life, a political movement, or our individual identities and desires without them. The fact that categories invariably leak and can never contain all the relevant "existing things" does not re...

Gayle Rubin

I think they'd barely recognize us as brothers and sisters. If we told them, church is on Sundays, and we have an awesome band...if the found out 1/6th of the earth's population claimed to be Christians, I'm not sure they could reconcile the sufferin...

Jen Hatmaker

To live in fear is a life half-lived.

Spanish

Eat to live and not live to eat.

Traditional

ISIS is not a mere criminal organization that spreads death wherever it went, it is rather a crisis of a nation.

Dismantling ISIS

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

Flipped

Eat your heart out. Oh, wait. You can’t. It’s not organic.

The Great Escape

Skype is kind of amazing - look at Skype in the classroom - those are things that can really excite your organization. That's what has been really great to me.

Tony Bates

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

Alexandre de Betak

Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don't take naturally to it.

American Gods

In the symphony of love, the lost chord is a small organ lying somewhat north of the vagina.

Adams rib

The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

The Vagina Monologues