Well, that simplification is not quite acceptable to me. The general definition of "living" involves more conditions. Wikipedia has a pretty good list of the 7

Well, that simplification is not quite acceptable to me. The general definition of "living" involves more conditions. Wikipedia has a pretty good list of the 7 usual criteria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life I don't think crystals qualify. Still, in the end, I think I do agree with you; calling plants and\or crystals sentient life is pretty unfounded.