Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural…

“The plants in the garden - the aloes, the almond tree, the rose tree and the iris - were afraid of her. The flowers…

— Hendrik Cramer

The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes…

— Sarah Parcak

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous…

— Washington Irving

...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is…

— Freeman Dyson

Where timber vegetation is ruthlessly destroyed, aridity and its sequence sterility will prevail and the hotter the climate, the more to be dreaded.

— Ferdinand von Mueller

The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves, and the…

— Antoine Lavoisier

“Scrubby evergreen bushes released a strong scent of resin and honey; forests of pine gave way to gentle south-facing vineyards disturbed only by the…

— Deborah Lawrenson

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

— Natalie Jeremijenko

Just as the light and weightless vegetation of saltpeter floats over the old walls of houses as soon as the owner gets careless, so…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts,…

— Washington Irving

The Revelations is an amazing, rich material that is full of stories about angels and angels being sent down to Earth to wipe out…

— Misha Collins

“There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.”

— Victor Hugo

“He began to explain to me that vegetation, and especially mature trees, are able to transmit harmony when one rests one’s nerve centers against…

— Paulo Coelho

I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, humanlike scent.…

— Dian Fossey