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1. animal animal


What animal is it?
Although rainforests make up only two percent of the earth's surface, over half the world's wild plant, animal and insect species live there.
Along with the plants, animal life, too, was developing in harmony with the strict requirements of the land.
Humans are amphibians — half spirit and half animal.... As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
Just one look at the amusing dispenser, colorful animal tiles, two-sided bingo cards, and transparent monkey chips and you know you're in for some serious fun.
To this extent, it has the characteristics of a great complicated balance between plant life and lower forms of animal life.
No animal builds beautiful churches, plays tennis, tells jokes, writes songs or visits the moon.
Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, Diogenes plucked a cock and brought it into the Academy, and said, "This is Plato’s man." On which account this addition was made to the definition,—"With broad flat nails."
The difference between man and animal nowadays has more or less to do with clothing.
Human and animal life are influenced by their reactions to the atmospheric environment.
In order to live happily and healthily with parakeets or parrots, you should understand the science of animal behavior for domesticated birds, and consider the emotional effect of eventually losing them.
It has been said that a man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.
The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.