He calls it sometimes a symphony, sometimes a cathedral, sometimes a tree - and he calls it great not arrogantly but with the self-effacement of a man who sees it as something apart from himself, as a great plan in which he had the job of finding the practical solutions and which had then grown naturally, like a living thing, out of the environment.
The Qur'an asserts that water is the sole basis for the emergence of life: We have made every living thing out of water.
I'll keep this brief because I know, this being VICE, that a lot of you don't have kids, won't have them soon, and frankly, the very idea of pushing another living thing out of your body, or purposefully playing a part in making that happen, is as far away from your immediate concerns as can be.
Walter Alvarez, the maverick geologist who convinced a skeptical world that dinosaurs and many other living things on Earth were wiped out by a huge fireball from space, has won the highly esteemed Vetlesen Prize.
Once you have the number of tropical arthropods, you've counted the biggest chunk of living things on Earth, if you leave out the bacteria.
The International Center for Technology Assessment, which has long opposed the patenting of living things, pointed out that the patent applies to mammals, without excepting humans.
This was done over the following few years, largely through Wilkins's studies of purified DNA from many species of living things, carried out at the MRC biophysics unit at King's.
A spring breeze forms from the sighs of all living things breathing out together.
Form, in the case of living things, turns out to be capacity to perform living functions, i.e. soul; and thus the form of a living thing is causally prior to the matter, because it is the goal for the sake of which the parts of the animal its matter come to be and exist.
