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

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

— Swami Vivekananda

The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification.…

— Karl Landsteiner

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

— John Locke

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

— John Kehoe

It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or…

— John Hay

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under…

— Theophrastus

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

To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.

— Christopher Tunnard

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