Joseph de Maistre Quotes

It is part of the fundamental impulse in all living things to reach for light, part of the indomitable will to see.

Nature knows best.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

That is one of the great secrets of life, that life is a movement. And if you are stuck somewhere you lose contact with life.

Life is the elimination of what is dead.

Evolution is all about looking forward.

Every acorn on the ground is just as alive as the three-hundred-year-old oak tree that towers over it.

We are not evolved but evolving.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

Evolution leads the way through desire.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.

I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.

Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.