Jonathan Swift Quotes

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

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

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.

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

Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.

Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

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.

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.

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

A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions.

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

All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches.

Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

The sea is a place where every day, half the population eats the other half.

Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.

That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up.

Life eats life to live.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field.

You know why fish are so thin? They eat fish.

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

It was a pretty good year for predators.