#plants

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend. ↗

— Asa Gray

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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

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

I am against changing my body to become better. I am not against implants, I have a lot of girlfriends who have them, but the implants look good on them. I am never gonna get them, once I have kids they are gonna get bigger anyway. ↗

— Summer Altice

#am #anyway #become #better #bigger

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#directions #except #experience #forth #give

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. ↗

— George W. Bush

#crunch #enough #generating #plants #power

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#about #anything #around #go #going

Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#common #directly #inorganic #life #may

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#earth #event #every #his #life

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

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