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Quotation from History of Animals by Aristotle
“Nature passes so gradually from inanimate to animate things, that from their continuity their boundary and the mean between them is indistinct”
History of Animals, Book VIII, Ch. I, §2, trans. Richard Cresswell (1862)
Aristotle's statement of the scale of nature, illustrated by sea creatures that seem halfway between plants and animals.
Citation: "Nature passes so gradually from inanimate to animate things, that from their continuity their boundary and the mean between them is indistinct" — Aristotle, History of Animals, Book VIII, Ch. I, §2, trans. Richard Cresswell (1862). (id aristotle-history-of-animals-q8)
