Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.
Quotes about vegetation (16 Quotes)
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
At the same time because of the problems with the animals and vegetation, appearance tickets were served on her to appear in city court.
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
He created the heavens without pillars as you see them, and put mountains upon the earth lest it might convulse with you, and He spread in it animals of every kind and We sent down water from the cloud, then caused to grow therein (vegetation) of every noble kind.
'Have you done your homework' my mother would ask. 'I'll do it later.' 'You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica.' Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.
Writer Tom Piazza was born on Long Island but now calls New Orleans home. New Orleans has a personality unlike any other city, ... It has its own architecture, its own vegetation, its own smells and cuisine, and, obviously, its own music--many types of its own music. It is relaxed, and a high percentage of the population knows the value of a good meal, a good laugh, some cold beer and crawfish, and a good band. These are highly conducive to the production of good fiction, too.
You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature by making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals as by turning him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines. It is also obvious that when man domesticated animals and plants he acquired self-made machines for the production of food, power, and beauty.
Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire and larger limbs assume Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing.
There would have been a lot more vegetation. There was more food available for grazing animals, and therefore more carnivores.
Along with defining boundaries and public access, we need to be clear about the allowable uses and to begin an inventory of the landscape, including valuable wetlands, the wildlife and vegetation,
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind . . .