Animals and plants cannot understand our business, so we have denied that they can understand their own. What we call inorganic matter cannot understand the animals' and plants' business, we have therefore denied that it can understand anything whatever.


Organic and Inorganic - The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912) - Part VI - Mind and Matter

Samuel Butler Quotes

Animals and plants cannot understand our business, so we have denied that they can understand their own. What we call inorganic matter cannot...

Animals and plants cannot understand our business, so we have denied that they can understand their own. What we call inorganic matter cannot...

Animals and plants cannot understand our business, so we have denied that they can understand their own. What we call inorganic matter cannot...

Animals and plants cannot understand our business, so we have denied that they can understand their own. What we call inorganic matter cannot...