Nonhuman Personal Names
Apart from the Linnaean taxonomy, some humans give individual nonhuman animals and plants names, usually of endearment.
Read more about this topic: Eastern Name Order
Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or names:
“Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,—what ample borrowers of eternity they are!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)