Quotes about animal
animal plant form
It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend. Asa Gray
animal vegetables lines
In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
animal shapes plant
We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.
animal definitions laying-down
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
animal oxygen years
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
animal vegetables next
Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.
animal habit humans
Humans are animals of habit. Arundhati Roy
animal people cheat
I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across! Diana Wynne Jones
animal confusion world
I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion. Diane Ackerman
animal different needs
We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.
animal evolution plant
We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.
animal animal-rights species
It's animal by animal that you save a species.
animal errands wonder
One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.
animal intelligent long
The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more "intelligent" than any other creature. I have had long and fruitful relationshis with many nonhuman animals, both domesticated and wild, and have reveled in the bouquet of radically different intelligences - different forms, not different "quantities" that they have introduced to me, each in his or her own time, in his or her own way. Derrick Jensen
animal law land
Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set of laws for governing an empire, prescribed death for anyone who harbored a fugitive or otherwise helped a slave to escape. The relationship between the law and bondage goes back even farther: Indeed, the oldest extant legal documents don't concern the sale of land, houses, or even animals, but slaves.
animal sheep clouds
When I look up at the clouds I see so many animals, mostly sheep who have lost their limbs and heads. Demetri Martin
animal roots rodeo
When I am at rodeo I find it difficult not to root for the animals.
animal people enough
Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough. Daniel Handler
animal torn-apart awful
Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?
animal beautiful dime profit
We've sunk just about every dime of profit into this operation, but it's not just the money. When you see a beautiful animal like that slaughtered... it's such a waste. Who would do such a thing? I would like to know. Dick Johnson
animal nfl enjoy
I always enjoy animal acts. Calvin Coolidge
animal years laughing
Through the years I've learned to gain the trust of humans. I'm really good at gaining the trust of animals and I have developed the same ability with humans. I don't make people feel wrong, I just make people aware. I have learned to make people laugh. Cesar Millan
animal leader unstable
Humans are the only animals who will follow unstable pack leaders.
animal cruelty live-well
Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others. Cesar Chavez
animal unhappy vegetarian
In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do..
animal perfect looks
I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal. Carroll Shelby
animal people environmental
A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills. Carol Browner
animal curiosity suffering
Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity. Charles Darwin
animal hands order
The lower animals, on the other hand, must have their bodily structure modified in order to survive under greatly changed conditions. They must be rendered stronger, or acquire more effective teeth or claws, in order to defend themselves from new enemies; or they must be reduced in size so as to escape detection and danger. When they migrate into a colder climate they must become clothed with thicker fur, or have their constitutions altered. If they fail to be thus modified, they will cease to exist.
animal men intellectual
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them.
animal men differences
There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.
animal space facts
It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each other in group subordinate to group.
animal light variation
After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject.