I shall not discuss the truth of this conception at present, but it contributes, along with the sentiments of justice and humanity that animate-rightly or wrongly-the ideal of the socialists, to lend something of a religious force to their movement, for they feel that they are fellow-workers with the nature of things.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
He is head of the Victoria Hospital for Children, and what with keen interest in his profession, and intense love of nature, animate and inanimate, I don't think he would know how to be bored.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
Across the sand-ridges come many foreign things, both animate and inanimate, which are engulfed in its immensity, which frequently disappear for all time from the sight of men, blotted out like a bird which flies free from a lighted room into the outside darkness.
"The Desert Valley"
Jackson Gregory