For Augustine, "plant, fowl and animal life are not perfect ... but created in a state of potentiality," unlike what he considered the theologically perfect forms of angels, the firmament and the human soul.
Para Agustiño, "as plantas, aves e vida animal non son perfectas ... senón creadas nun estado de potencialidade", a diferenza do que el considera as formas teoloxicamente perfectas dos anxos, o firmamento e a alma humana.