In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop. Asa Gray animaldivergejoin Change image and share on social
Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species? Asa Gray disproportiongeneralgreat Change image and share on social
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 animalapproachbelieve share on social
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 animaldefinitiondifferentiate share on social
I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it. Asa Gray callconvincemember Change image and share on social
It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized. Asa Gray animaldifferencedistinctively Change image and share on social
Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present. Asa Gray candorconfessdifficulty Change image and share on social
The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them. Asa Gray convictiondefinedifficulty share on social
I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago. Asa Gray agoaspireauthorship share on social
We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape. Asa Gray animalbeingdefinite share on social
