Genet - Animals and Plants

Animals and Plants

  • Genet (biology), a colony of plants, fungi or bacteria that come from a single genetic source.
  • Genet (animal), a small predatory Old World carnivore related to civets

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Famous quotes containing the words animals and, animals and/or plants:

    “For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?”
    —Jessamyn West (1907–1984)

    “What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn’t see Negroes hanging from its branches.”
    —Jean Genet (1910–1986)