#plant

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If only Myrtle would pay attention to the Boy's Own Journal, Blackwood's Magazine, etc., she would know that these creatures were Threls, who come from a worldlet called Threlfall on the far side of the asteroid belt. This Threlfall is a cheerless, chilly spot, and the whole history and religion of the Threls has been concerened with their quest to knit a nice woolly coverlet for it.


Philip Reeve


#aliens #astroid #humor #planet #plantets

One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.


Douglas Tallamy


#conservation #diversity #endangered #extinction #gardening

Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.


Joyce Cary


#anarchists #buddha #church #churches #confucius

My favourite plant is the foxglove. I think they are a perfect balance between being a garden plant and a wild plant, as at home in woodland as they are in a city.


Clive Anderson


#being #between #city #favourite #garden

Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and the environment that come from planting trees and creating new woodland habitat. It's obvious trees are good things.


Clive Anderson


#come #countless #creating #environment #gathered

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.


Adam Ant


#complex #heart #how #learned #like

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.


Liberty Hyde Bailey


#attention #because #effort #expended #fulfill

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.


Liberty Hyde Bailey


#come #creep #entranced #everywhere #float

One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife.


Robert T. Bakker


#animal #bad #biggest #danger #determined

Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.


Liberty Hyde Bailey


#garden #give #good #grow #less