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"Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself."

Lewis Thomas on Nature

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  • "Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."

    Pedro Calderon de la Barca on Nature

  • "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

    Anais Nin on Nature

  • "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

    Albert Einstein on Nature

  • "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

    e. e. cummings on Nature

  • "All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind."

    Abraham Lincoln on Nature

More quotes by Lewis Thomas

  • "A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart."

  • "A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway."

  • "I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way."

  • "Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow."

  • "There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain."

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