#living creature

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. ↗

— Lucretius

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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away. ↗

— Plutarch

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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#circle #compassion #creatures #embrace #free

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. ↗

— Dan Millman

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Nothing has existence unless you, I, or some living creature perceives it, and how it is perceived further influences that reality. Even time itself is not exempted from biocentrism. ↗

— Robert Lanza

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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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