Animal Quote by Asa Gray

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

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. We are all one interdependent organism, so our focus may seem…

— Ian Somerhalder

“One of the most remarkable features to be noted as we survey the scale of animal life is that as we go up, individuality…

— Simone de Beauvoir

It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you…

— Andrew H. Knoll

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

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming,…

— Richard Le Gallienne

In terms of their basic biochemical design…no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system,…

— Michael Denton

The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, and according to the concept of evolution,…

— Hans Adolf Krebs

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of…

— Charlotte Mason

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

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

— Rudy Rucker

In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the…

— Chauncey Wright