Animal Quote by Asa Gray

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively…

— Asa Gray

Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few…

— Aristotle

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and…

— Asa Gray

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

“The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no one could…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It…

— Michael Crichton

Let us investigate more closely this property common to animal and plant, this power of producing its likeness, this chain of successive existences of…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

— Thomas Love Peacock

“When we use these words and we talk about plants having a strategy to do this or wanting this or desiring this, we’re being…

— Michael Pollan

WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common…

— Anonymous

“If the world and all its species of animals and plants were created at once by some supernatural force or event, we might expect…

— Bill Nye

Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange.

— John Kehoe