Kevin Kelly Quotes

If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.

Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life

We are all part of the ecosystem.

Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full picture of the world.

Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.

It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.

Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

Brazil has one of the greatest natural patrimonies in terms of biodiversity.

A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

Trees are our closest relatives. What trees exhale, we inhale; what we exhale, they inhale. They are half our respiratory system.