#organism

I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it? ↗

— David Suzuki

#always #am #away #been #blown

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#day #day to day #death #grateful #here

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#culture #cultures #ends #essentially #her

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. ↗

— Simone Weil

#church #considered #degenerate #inevitably #into

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#exploring #field #get #into #kinds

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#body #essentially #human #human body #organism

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#however #indifferent #organism #stimuli #upon

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species. ↗

— Richard Owen

#certain #certain extent #condition #constant #extent

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#audience #experience #i #i am #living

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. ↗

— Colin Powell

#action #attains #chief #condition #depend