We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything.
"Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhartha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (Å›ramana) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in the eastern part of ancient India sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE." Source: Wikipedia