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

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

They are the biology of the planet much more than plants and animals.

It's actually a very ancient antiviral pathway, because it is found in animals and plants. We're just making sure it's turned on.