I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around…

The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long…

— Lynn Margulis

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as…

— Asa Gray

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant…

— Carl Sagan

We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but…

— Diane Ackerman

We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely…

— Naomi Oreskes

“Although it’s not just plants and animals that die out, so do books. Quite often, I’m sorry to say. I’m sure you could fill…

— Cornelia Funke

We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We...

— Gary Larson

We need to preserve these sacred locations for ourselves, for the species of plants and animals that coexist in harmony there, and for the…

— Frederick Lenz

“There is no doubt that plants and animals have minds, emotions, feelings, and survival instincts. This means that we must also consider a new…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.

— Susan Orlean

“But if humans can make new varieties of plants and animals, must not nature do so also? This related process is called natural selection.…

— Carl Sagan

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

— Rose Wilder Lane

“Even plants and animals were mechanised. Around the time that Homo sapiens was elevated to divine status by humanist religions, farm animals stopped being…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The trees are a thousand times taller than me, and hundreds of years older, and the rocks and leaves and plants and animals never…

— Ben Stephenson

“God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and the sun…

— Jeffrey R. Anderson