Organic Quotes - page 6

It's a Cuban thing. But he ate very well - lots of organic steak. When he was diagnosed, the doctors told him he'd had cancer for six years. This dated back to around the time of Chernobyl, when he was in Wales doing a gig and it was raining. He got absolutely soaked to the skin. He then drove five hours up to the north of Scotland, still wearing the wet jacket. Later, he read in a newspaper that the sheep in the part of Wales where he had been performing had been killed because the rain contained fallout from the disaster. His cancer was right across the back of his shoulders, where the rain had first hit him. He reckoned it was that which caused it. (Sienna Guillory)
I merge what I call the organic with what I call the abstract, which is what you are calling the geometric. As I see both scales, I need to merge these two in the ever-present. What they symbolize I have never stopped to decide. You might want to read it as matter and spirit and the need to merge as against the need to separate. Or it can be read as male and female. View quote
Lee Krasner
We contrast the urban and the natural, but that's a contemporary myth. We're animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as "natural” (whatever that word really means) as a termite hill or a rabbit warren. But how much more interesting: how much more complex, dressed in the intricacies and exfoliations of human culture, simple patterns iterated into infinite variation. And full of secrets, secrets beyond counting. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
...institutions like the House of Lords must die, like all other organic beings, when their time comes. View quote
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
The main virtue of geometric shapes is that they aren't organic, as all art otherwise is. A form that's neither geometric or organic would be a great discovery. View quote
Donald Judd
... as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch. View quote
Donna Tartt
We just did a few takes of a song and just picked the best one. It was real organic and genuine. View quote
Lucinda Williams
I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly? View quote
Jay Kay
Nye grew up in a science-minded family in Washington, D.C. His mom was a math and science whiz. His dad manufactured sundials. His grandfather was an organic scientist. Fittingly, one of young Bill's favorite hangouts was the original Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, which looked like a small Quonset hut. View quote
Bill Nye
Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more organic, more biological, more like life, because life is the best technology for living. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
As life evolves it unbinds from the inorganic and interacts more with the organic. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
The apparent veil between the organic and the manufactured has crumpled to reveal that the two really are, and have always been, of one being. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
A good definition of a network is organic behaviour in a technological matrix. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
The hardest lesson for humans to learn: that organic complexity will entail organic time. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
Artificial complex systems will be deliberately infused with organic principles simply to keep them going. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
Biology always wins in any blending of organic and machine. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
The virgin fertility of our soils and the vast amount of unskilled labor have been more of a curse than a blessing to agriculture. This exhaustive system for cultivation, the destruction of forest, the rapid and almost constant decomposition of organic matter, have made our agricultural problem one requiring more brains than of the North, East or West. View quote
George Washington Carver
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. View quote
Alvin Toffler
Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren't working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to figure out ways for teams to communicate less with each other, not more. View quote
Jeff Bezos
All art is to some extent shaped by what has gone before. But that is an organic process, not a conscious intention. Novels are made out of novels as much as they are out of life. View quote
John Banville
I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people. (Peter Carey)
There is the growing influence of biology and the application of biological principles to the human faculties, thought among the rest. Man is said to have brains because they enable him to survive. Intelligence is construed as an organic function and reason as developed or evolved intelligence. View quote
Ralph Barton Perry
Government is not a machine, but a living thing. It falls, not under the theory of the universe, but under the theory of organic life. It is accountable to Darwin, not to Newton. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Of course, like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
I should strive (on reading a book of poetry) to evoke the a soul out of this piece of inanimate matter, a something characteristic and structural inherent in this organic form which is friendly to me and responds to my mood. View quote
John Gould Fletcher