Lewis Thomas Quotes

All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.

In nature nothing exists alone.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.

There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

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.

Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.

I don't believe in the separation between mankind and nature. Mankind is nature.

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 an integral part of the chain of life.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

We are all part of the ecosystem.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. We are all one interdependent organism, so our focus may seem broad but each element interacts with the other. We have so many phenomenal eyes, skills, and hands on deck. It's mind-blowingly exciting.

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.

Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, Was e'er created solely for itself.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

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.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Our life is made by the death of others.

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.