Internal Environment Quotes

Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

The most important thing is what is happening inside the club.

The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured the maintenance, with the internal environment, of all the conditions necessary for the life of the elements.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.