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Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

~Aristotle

Topics: Animals Cunning Dog Easily Elephant Fierce Fond Fox Friendly Gentle Goose Jealous Ornament Others Peacock Shame Some Susceptible Tamed Watchful

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The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

~Aristotle

Topics: Acute Animals Best Disposition Eyes Large Middle Moderate Most Others Persons Position Projecting Sign Size Small Some Those Vision Which

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Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

~Aristotle

Topics: Always Animals Bat Daylight Easily Elephant Ground Hours Invariably Kinds Leopard Man Mule Nocturnal Others Owl Some Tame Tamed Use Wild Wild Animals Wolf

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Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

~Aristotle

Topics: About Also Animals Breeding Cannot Cases Cry Expressed Kinds Loud May Mostly Musical Noisy Others Season Silent Some Utter Voice Which Word

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We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.

~Armin Van Buuren

Topics: Animals Because Categorize Everything Fit Labels Need Order People Put Strong Totally Understand Understandable Where

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God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

~Arthur Young

Topics: Animals Awakens God Man Minerals Plants Sleeps Thinks Walks

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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

Topics: Always Animals Believed Blend Closely Each Forms Higher Lower Other Plants Plants And Animals Representatives Simpler Though Understood Very Were

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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

Topics: Animal Animals Become Before Best Definition Difficulty Down Either Ever Far Forms Greater Laying Now Opinion Ordinary Plant Plants Plants And Animals Respects Sufficiently Than Which While

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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

Topics: Added Animals Being Carbon Chemical Composed Different Elements Four Hydrogen Many Materials Other Oxygen Plants Plants And Animals Substance Taught Three Were Years Years Ago

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I was always into animals and animal protection, ever since I was growing up.

~Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Topics: Always Animal Animals Ever Growing Growing Up Protection Since Up

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