#animal

Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three. ↗

— Asa Gray

#ago #being #carbon #chemical #composed

Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms. ↗

— Asa Gray

#did #found #life #living #manifested

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before. ↗

— Asa Gray

#become #before #best #definition #differentiated

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote. ↗

— Gary Steiner

#domestication #injustice #justice #morality #oppression

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#animal #been #important #issues #me

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#man #rather #reasonable #reasoning #than

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#about #around #basic #enjoy #land

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#animal #animal rights #being #human #human rights

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#between #difference #laughs #man #only

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#animal #beauty #big #cheek #color