Huxley thought we might as well talk about the principle of aqueosity in water. We are the victims of words. It is like the compositor distributing his type after the book is printed. The microorganisms answer to the compositor, but they are of a different kind from those which build up the body in the first instance. Protoplasm is the basis of life in both, and the cell is the architect that builds up the bodies of both.
Trees are rooted men and men are walking trees.
They are the words of a poet who sees hidden relations and meanings everywhere. He knows how fluid and adaptive all animate nature is. The trees are wrapped in a kind of slumber in winter, and they are reservoirs of living currents in summer. If all living bodies came originally out of the sea, they brought a big dower of the sea with them. The human body is mainly a few pinches of earth salts held in solution by several gallons of water.