Animal Quote by Asa Gray Download Open image “In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.” — Asa Gray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal Animals Lines Vegetables
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. — Edouard Manet Copy Share Image
If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide… — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular, interlacing nexus… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Wild animals passed on their way under the leaves; each track was an arterial road; and when I stooped and looked at the earth… — André Gide Copy Share Image
Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More… — Samuel Garth Copy Share Image
This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
“Botany is the name of the science of the vegetable kingdom in general; that is, of plants.” — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
“This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion. — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet… — Ernest Becker Copy Share
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.… — Alan Abel Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image