{"quotes":[{"text":"There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["connection","ecosystem","natural-world","organism"],"id":9574,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.","author":"William Morris Davis","tags":["environment","geography","ontography","organism","physiography","relationship","science"],"id":89782,"author_id":"William+Morris+Davis"},{"text":"The organism's environment is the sense it makes of the world. This environment is a place of significance and valence, as a result of the global action of the organism.","author":"Evan Thompson","tags":["environment","meaning","organism"],"id":95664,"author_id":"Evan+Thompson"},{"text":"A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["attack","endurance","organism","reproduction","strength"],"id":97995,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"Sometimes, when I'm alone, I wonder if it really counts as being alone, since I am covered in millions of other living organisms.","author":"Travis J. Dahnke","tags":["alone","food-for-thought","not-alone","organism"],"id":213284,"author_id":"Travis+J.+Dahnke"},{"text":"Something acquires meaning for an organism to the extent that it relates (either positively or negatively) to the norm of the maintenance of the organism's integrity.","author":"Evan Thompson","tags":["form","meaning","normativity","organism"],"id":254635,"author_id":"Evan+Thompson"},{"text":"...It would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the same for all living beings. Reality is not a unique and homogeneous thing; it is immensely diversified, having as many different schemes and patterns as there are different organisms. Every organism is, so to speak, a monadic being. It has a world of its own because it has an experience of its own. The phenomena that we find in the life of a certain biological species are not transferable to any other species. The experiences - and therefore the realities - of two different organisms are incommensurable with one another. In the world of a fly, says Uexkull, we find only 'fly things'; in the world of a sea urchin we find only 'sea urchin things.","author":"Ernst Cassirer","tags":["difference","empiricism","experience","form","incommensurability","ontology-of-things","organism","phenomenalism","phenomenon","reality","species","world"],"id":260125,"author_id":"Ernst+Cassirer"},{"text":"THE ORGANIC FOODS MYTHA few decades ago, a woman tried to sue a butter company that had printed the word 'LITE' on its product's packaging. She claimed to have gained so much weight from eating the butter, even though it was labeled as being 'LITE'. In court, the lawyer representing the butter company simply held up the container of butter and said to the judge, 'My client did not lie. The container is indeed 'light in weight'. The woman lost the case.In a marketing class in college, we were assigned this case study to show us that 'puffery' is legal. This means that you can deceptively use words with double meanings to sell a product, even though they could mislead customers into thinking your words mean something different. I am using this example to touch upon the myth of organic foods. If I was a lawyer representing a company that had labeled its oranges as being organic, and a man was suing my client because he found out that the oranges were being sprayed with toxins, my defense opening statement would be very simple: 'If it's not plastic or metallic, it's organic.'Most products labeled as being organic are not really organic. This is the truth. You pay premium prices for products you think are grown without chemicals, but most products are. If an apple is labeled as being organic, it could mean two things. Either the apple tree itself is free from chemicals, or just the soil. One or the other, but rarely both. The truth is, the word 'organic' can mean many things, and taking a farmer to court would be difficult if you found out his fruits were indeed sprayed with pesticides. After all, all organisms on earth are scientifically labeled as being organic, unless they are made of plastic or metal. The word 'organic' comes from the word 'organism', meaning something that is, or once was, living and breathing air, water and sunlight.So, the next time you stroll through your local supermarket and see brown pears that are labeled as being organic, know that they could have been third-rate fare sourced from the last day of a weekend market, and have been re-labeled to be sold to a gullible crowd for a premium price. I have a friend who thinks that organic foods have to look beat up and deformed because the use of chemicals is what makes them look perfect and flawless. This is not true. Chemical-free foods can look perfect if grown in your backyard. If you go to jungles or forests untouched by man, you will see fruit and vegetables that look like they sprouted from trees from Heaven. So be cautious the next time you buy anything labeled as 'organic'. Unless you personally know the farmer or the company selling the products, don't trust what you read. You, me, and everything on land and sea are organic.Suzy Kassem,Truth Is Crying.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["ads","advertising","advertising-puffery","apples","business","butter","butter-story","buying","case-study","chemicals","comapny","companies","company","consumer","deceptive","deceptive-advertising","examples-of-puffery-advertising","farmer","fat","food-market","foods","fraud","fruits","fruits-and-vegetables","health-foods","healthy","healthy-diet","heaven","law","lawyers","legal","lifestyle","marketing","marketing-puffery","marketing-puffery-definition","marketing-puffery-examples","organic","organism","organisms","pesticides","puffery","puffery-advertising-examples","puffery-case","puffery-examples","puffery-in-marketing-messages","puffery-legal-definition","sea","soil","supermarket","suzy-kassem","trees","water"],"id":263056,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"The Church is both organism and organization - Woven together in a beautifully messy dance that stumbles across the stage of a fallen world.","author":"Todd Stocker","tags":["church","dance","inspirational","motivational","organism","organization","stage","world"],"id":295077,"author_id":"Todd+Stocker"},{"text":"The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as such is not likely to fall prey to the field of an advanced chemistry. The cell is itself an organism, constituted of many small units of life.","author":"Oscar Hertwig","tags":["biology","cell","chemistry","keystone","life","nature","organism","science"],"id":310055,"author_id":"Oscar+Hertwig"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}