Noun
a living (or once living) entity
Source: WordNetI imagine that yes is the only living thing. E. E. Cummings
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing. Frank Auerbach
In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time. Albert Camus
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it. Boris Pasternak
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Carl Sagan
Every living thing has a story to tell. African Proverb