Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.

Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet.

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

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.

People don't even understand that every bit of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism, tear it apart in our mouths. And incorporate those molecules into our own bodies. We are the Earth in the most profound way.

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

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

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 is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.

There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness.

My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

Every fish fertilizes the water in a way that generates the plankton that ultimately leads back into the food chain, but also yields oxygen, grabs carbon - it's a part of what makes the ocean function and what makes the planet function.

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

The earth has a life of its own.

This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth.

Every species has its pub.

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.