Fiddling with the genetic identities of domesticated…

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

“Early Near Eastern villages domesticated plants and animals. Uruk urban institutions, in turn, domesticated humans.”

— James C. Scott

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

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