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you know, that are rooted to one spot as we usually 
think only a plant is rooted. 
What, then, zs the difference between a plant and 
an animal? 
Leaf Green and Sunbeam between them put life 
into what had no life before; and the living plant 
matter, which they help to make, is that which animals 
cannot make themselves, yet which they cannot live 
without, for this living matter is absolutely necessary 
to them as food. 
And the one real difference between a plant and an 
animal is this, —a plant can make out of certain dead 
substances the living matter that all animals must have 
for food; an animal cannot do this. 
