That statement (as written) can be trivially shown to be false. Nature is full of examples of non-living motion.
Rivers flow. Waves crash and roll. Rain and snow falls from the sky. Rocks roll down eroding hillsides. Wind blows dead leaves. Hurricanes and tornadoes spin and march across sea and land. Tides rise and fall. Volcanoes erupt. Planets orbit stars and moons orbit planets. Nature has long been full of motion, long before life arrived.
And many (in fact most) living things do not move at all. Trees move in the wind, but not because they are alive.
It gets closer to being accurate if you mean microscopic motion. Most living things have microscopic structures involved in the transport of nutrients and gasses from one part of its body to another ... for example, if you look at the leaves of a tree in a microscope, you can see the flow of nutrients through its veins. So in that sense, the sentence starts to make sense.
2006-11-22 03:31:31
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answered by secretsauce 7
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Look up "Brownian Motion" to disprove this saying. This is motion of very small things "such as pollen grains or very small crystals" induced by being hit by molecules. Anyone who looks under a microscope at fresh wet samples will notice it.
2006-11-21 22:25:28
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answered by Labsci 7
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if you see a thing moving or in motion you can say that this is a living thing because in my elementary days our teachers thought us that living things grow, move and etc. this modern days that is not true anymore because of robots. they move but thay have no life.
2006-11-21 21:30:06
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answered by Anonymous
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where there is motion there is life
anything that has life moves, even the flower, though we can't see them do it. we will just notice that they do move when they start blooming. and we, we actually muv! example is me, i am moving while answering ur question. joke! well, god bless!!!c",)
2006-11-21 22:58:32
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answered by JanInE 2
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