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“Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a species to be toward evil in itself. But there is in all perfect animals a natural inclination toward carnal union. Therefore it is impossible for carnal union to be evil in itself.”

Moving Evil Natural Perfect Animal Impossible All Things Unions Species Inclination

Book:Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence

Source: Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence

“English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the gigantic slime mould recently bred by scientists at Bonn. Bright yellow and about two millimetres thick, this monocellular creature--neither plant nor animal--grew to a size of 10 square yards before the scientists took fright and froze it. It can smell its favourite food, and move towards it at a speed of up to two centimetres an hour. This favourite food is porridge.”

Two Moving Hours Animal Impossible Grew Creatures Scientist Plant Size Smell Stupidity Speed Squares Yellow Thick Favourite Primitive Organisms Yards Fright Mould Slime Porridge

Author:Neal Ascherson

“It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.”

World Country Feelings Nature Animal Impossible Woods Expanding Foreign Countries

Book:Cross Creek

Source: Cross Creek

“All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection. Thus men are linked with the animals, these with the plants and these with the fossils which in turn merge with those bodies which our senses and our imagination represent to us as absolutely inanimate.”

Knows Men Two Ideas Different Body Would Be Together Turns Universe Imagination Animal United Class Taken Impossible Essentials Plant Senses Disorder Imperfection Linked Curves Fossils

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible around the house. One has but to spend a few days with an aardvark or llama, command a water buffalo to sit up and beg or try to housebreak a moose, to perceive how wisely Man set about his process of elimination and selection.”

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as you correctly pointed out, animal products are an integral part of some ethnic groups and societies and it would be nearly impossible for them to change thousands of years of traditional eating habits.”

People Way Years Would Be Enjoy Interest Animal Impossible Groups Products Habit Eating Traditional Ethnic Groups Eating Habits

Author:Gary Player

“It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.”

Men Believe Spiritual Animal Pieces Impossible Emotional Pure Sticks Classic Intensity Scarlet Classic Beauty

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“It seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. But extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror.”

Men Facts Body Seems Eye Animal Impossible Judging Horror Extremes Boundaries Attractive Seductive

Book:Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939

Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939