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“Businesses and markets have a symbiotic relationship. Each has a profound effect on the other.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
― Samuel Johnson, Lives of the poets: Milton

“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.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“I speculate that we shall come to accept the more radical idea that each one of our genes is a symbiotic unit. We are gigantic colonies of symbiotic genes.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

“It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine, are destined to play an ever-increasing part.”
― Norbert Wiener

“Humans as a species will need to embed the concept of symbiosis into our global society such that in all of our activities - we are voluntarily benefitting from and providing benefit to a multitude of other life forms. And businesses should be leading the way with this.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“Life is not found in atoms or molecules or genes as such, but in organization; not in symbiosis but in synthesis.”
― Edwin Grant Conklin

“The vastness around him was now his flesh. And yet, nothing -not the countless footsteps taken or knowledge acquired, not the adversaries bested or the friends made, not the love felt or the blood shed- had made it his.”
― Hernán Díaz, In the Distance

“Fungi protect the ecosystem they inhabit through complex symbiotic relationships. We can design a system whereby businesses protect the business ecosystem through complex symbiohtic relationships.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Jorden tilhører ikke mennesket.

Det er menneskene, der tilhører Jorden. De duftende blomster er vore søstre, og hesten, den mægtige ørn, for ikke at tale om elgen, er vore brødre. Og hvordan kan man købe eller sælge noget som helst? For hvem ejer varmen i luften eller lyden af vinden i træerne? Og saften i grenene bærer erindringen om dem, der har levet før os. Og lyden af bækkens mumlen er er vores forfaders stemme. Og vi må lære vores børn, at jorden under deres fødder er forfædrenes akse, og at alt, hvad der overgår Jorden også overgår os, og hvis mennesket spytter på jorden, spytter det på sig selv.”
― Erlend Loe, Doppler

“Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Fruit is freely given by the plant. It entrusts us with its seed, while surrounding it with the gift of fruit, as prepayment for conscious seed dispersal; the tree trusts us to do the right thing and care for its seeds as best we are able, by at least letting each one have a fighting chance. All too often we ignore this symbiotic pact, and mindlessly dispose of seeds to fates that have no possible future.”
― Mango Wodzak, The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook

“The multiplicity of human identity is not just a spiritual principle, it’s a biological fact—a basic ecological reality. ... only 10% of the cells in your body belong to you. The rest are the cells of bacteria and microorganisms that call your body home, and without these symbionts living on and within your physical self, you would be unable to digest and process the nutrients necessary to keep you alive. Your physical body is teeming with a microscopic diversity of life that rivals a rainforest. The insight of the Gaia Theory—that “the Earth system behaves as a single self-regulating system comprised of physical, chemical, biological and human components”—is as much a statement about our own physical bodies as it is about the planet. If we imagine the Earth as the body of a goddess, we can also imagine our own bodies as a sacred home to an ecologically complex and diverse array of microscopic life." -- Alison Leigh Lilly, "Naming the Water: Human and Deity Identity from an Earth-Centered Perspective”
― John Halstead

“Can you feel the connection? We breathe so that the trees thrive and the trees breathe so that we are able to live. Perfect symbiosis��”
― Sanchita Pandey, Lessons from My Garden

“He's not a parasite if she needs him, too, and if she gives what he will not take. (One day soon, she will learn the word symbiosis and nod, pleased to have a name for it at last. But long before that, she will have already decided that family will do.)”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“Talking about nature and mankind, always remember that we have to be there for each other as we exist because of each other!”
― Sanchita Pandey, Lessons from My Garden

“The body is like water, and the blood as the river.”
― Mia Siufi

“In the modern, networked and symbiotic world we live in, people management is less about squeezing performance from the organized few and more about curating contribution from the limitless many.”
― Gyan Nagpal, The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace

“It is this beautiful and powerful energy of love that is sustaining the world...Talking about nature and mankind, always remember that we have to be there for each other as we exist because of each other!”
― Sanchita Pandey, Lessons from My Garden

“Between the race of microbes and the race of humans there exists a total symbiosis and a radical incompatibility. One cannot say that the microbe is other to man: the two are never opposed in their essential natures, and they do not confront one another in any real sense; they are linked together, however, and this interlinking is, as it were, predestined: no one (neither men nor bacilli) can imagine things being any other way. Nor is there any clear line of demarcation, because this link is reproduced over and over ad infinitum. So perhaps after all we shall have to conclude that otherness is located here: that the absolute Other is indeed the microbe in its radical non-humanness - a being of which we know nothing, and which cannot even be deemed different from us. The microbe as the hidden form which alters everything - and with which no negotiation or reconciliation is possible. Yet we are quickened by the same life as the microbe, and the race of microbes will perish along with the human race: we share the same destiny. One is reminded of the worm that has a sort of alga living in its stomach, without whose help it can digest no food.
This is a fine arrangement until the day the worm takes a notion to devour the alga itself. And it does so - but dies as a result (without even digesting it, of course, because the alga is no longer there to help it to do so).”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“Life emerges when something is alive and living.”
― Joey Lawsin, Originemology

“The Janus Symbiosis by Stewart Stafford

Ambition's fruition never matches,
The reach of the expanding ego,
Then its imperious Siamese twin,
Savagely seeks sanguine satiation.

Who shall be the meat for the feast?
What shall the slaughter method be?
A blood sport for the VIP Narcissus,
Spitting bones through a rictus grin.

Sycophants surround the Janus figure,
Wheat and chaff to the scythe's blade,
Starving out any vestiges of moral fibre,
Lumps on the humps of the all-powerful.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved”
― Stewart Stafford

“Lichens are widespread in many deserts. They have no root system, absorbing water vapour from the atmosphere, and are therefore particularly extensive in the world’s coastal foggy deserts. Lichens are a unique group of life forms that consist of two closely related parts, a fungus and a partner that can produce food from sunlight. This partner is usually either an alga, or occasionally a blue-green bacterium known as ‘cyanobacteria��. Algal cells are protected by surrounding fungus which takes nutrition from the algae. When cyanobacteria are involved, nitrogen fixation is an additional benefit.”
― Nick Middleton, Deserts: A Very Short Introduction

“Butterfly alights,
whispers to the firefly,
"Night's canvas awaits."

Firefly twinkles,
responds with soft luminescence,
"We'll paint it with light."

Butterfly flutters,
"Your glow guides through the shadows,
our nocturnal flight."

Firefly replies,
"In the darkness, we unite,
Nature's lanterns bright."

Together they dance,
wings and sparks raveling.
A symphony of night.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul