 | Asa Gray - Botany - 1845 - 522 pages
...oxygen. We have seen that vegetation accomplishes this very result. The needful compensation is therefore found in the vegetable kingdom. While animals consume...essential to the continued existence of the other.* * It is plain, however, that, while the animal kingdom is entirely dependent on the vegetable, as no... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1845 - 540 pages
...vegetable kingdom in purifying the air we breathe. Hence, the perfect adaptation of the two great classes of living beings to each other ; each removing from...essential to the continued existence of the other. And yet, in one point of view, this reciprocity, as Sir Boyle Roche would say, is nearly all on one... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 500 pages
...primitive or elementary state. " While animals," says the most eminent botanist of this country, " consume the oxygen of the air, and give back carbonic...essential to the continued existence of the other." And further, — " Animals consume what vegetables produce. They themselves produce nothing directly... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 488 pages
...primitive or elementary state. " While animals," says the most eminent botanist of this country, " consume the oxygen of the air, and give back carbonic...essential to the continued existence of the other." And further, — " Animals consume what vegetables produce. They themselves produce nothing directly... | |
 | Francis Bowen - History - 1855 - 512 pages
...or elementary state. " While animals," says the most eminent botanist of this country, Dr. A Gray, " consume the oxygen of the air, and give back carbonic...yielding to the atmosphere what is essential to the continual existence of the other." And further, — " Animals consume what vegetables produce. They... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1871 - 498 pages
...vegetables, is consumed and decomposed by them, and its oxygen returned for the use of animals. Here is seen the perfect adaptation of the two great kingdoms of...beings to each other; each removing from the atmosphere that which is noxious to the other, — each yielding to the atmosphere what is essential to the continued... | |
 | Maine. Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1871 - 524 pages
...vegetables, is consumed and decomposed by them, and its oxygen returned for the use of animals. Here is seen the perfect adaptation of the two great kingdoms of...to each other ; each removing from the atmosphere that which is noxious to the other — each yielding to the atmosphere what is essential to the continued... | |
 | American Public Health Association - Public health - 1880 - 418 pages
...vegetal forces from inorganic nature. "Hence," according to Professor Gray, "the perfect adaptation of living beings to each other; each removing from...what is essential to the continued existence of the other."1 The necessity of a preponderance of vegetable over animal life to the health of the latter... | |
 | Francis Bowen - History - 1855 - 500 pages
...elementary state. " While animals," says the most eminent botanist of this country, Dr. A. Gray, " consume the oxygen of the air, and give back carbonic...yielding to the atmosphere what is essential to the continual existence of the other." And further, — " Animals consume what vegetables produce. They... | |
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While animals," says the most eminent botanist of this country, " consume the oxygen of the air, and give back carbonic acid, which is injurious to their life, this carbonic acid is the principal element of the food of vegetables, is consumed and decomposed... 