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Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close it. Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, 'Not really.'
- Ellsworth Kelly
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With the exception of autotrophic bacteria, the green, or chlorophyll-bearing, plants are the only living forms on this planet capable of synthesizing organic matter out of inorganic elements and simple compounds.
- Selman Waksman
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The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?
- Adam McKay
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I was a Dow Chemical baby. My dad designed chemical plants for Dow Chemical.
- Mike Dean
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I don't think that you can possibly embrace the kind of joy which one who has worked with plants and plant structures such as I have over a period of nearly 40 years, how wonderful the plant laboratory seems.
- Percy Julian
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During the 1950s, I decided, as did many others, that many practical problems were beyond analytic solution and that simulation techniques were required. At RAND, I participated in the building of large logistics simulation models; at General Electric, I helped build models of manufacturing plants.
- Harry Markowitz
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As a mother of four children, I want to know the drugs I'm giving them are safe. And as an American businesswoman, I want to keep jobs here, and that means making sure foreign drug plants have to meet the same standards as domestic ones.
- Heather Bresch
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The park lies directly downwind from a slew of coal plants. Virtually all of the major contaminants in the local air and water are direct results of coal emissions. Coal produces ozone, which kills trees. Coal produces sulfates, which kill fish. No other park in the country has more ozone or sulfates than Shenandoah National Park.
- Wil S. Hylton
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Brazil is strewn with ruins of projects - refineries, power plants - begun but never finished. Most of this investment never landed in places or industries that really meshed with the trajectory of the global economy. This wasn't state-of-the art industrial policy. The projects seemed curiously nostalgic.
- Franklin Foer
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The chip comes from silicon foundries who have been running their plants for the past fifty years, understand mass manufacture, and are the area that is most likely to understand the volume increase problem.
- Mike Marsh
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
- Dan Lipinski
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The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction was a horrible event. Dinosaurs and many other animals and plants were killed.
- Liu Cixin
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Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
- Asa Gray
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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
- Asa Gray
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It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
- Asa Gray
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Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.
- William Bligh
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Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years.
- Gregory Benford
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You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean. So what plants have - while we have consciousness, toolmaking, language, they have biochemistry.
- Michael Pollan
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New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.
- Nina Fedoroff
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We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs.
- Alice Morse Earle
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I talk to children in schools all over the world, and I've found that both boys and girls are fascinated by how hunter-gatherers manage to survive entirely on what's around them in their environment: trees, rocks, animals and plants.
- Michelle Paver
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Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description.
- George Grey
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Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.
- Gray Davis
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We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.
- Gray Davis
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So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.
- Gray Davis
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Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works.
- Alex Steffen
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On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.
- Hamdi Ulukaya
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Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
- Frances Mayes
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Some people have dogs... I like leaves. I like plants, and I like flowers too. Ecstasy is big in my life.
- Julie Newmar
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When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.
- Sam Trammell
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
- Majora Carter
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My mother loves plants. So, we have a lot of plants in our house that send out positive vibes.
- Mimi Chakraborty
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When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?
- Jeremy Rifkin
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I am not a farmer; I am a researcher who studies the plants that come to your dinner table, which means that I ask questions for a living.
- Hope Jahren
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Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.
- Barton Gellman
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If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants - and potentially a lot of allergy issues.
- Barry Marshall
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
- Wendell Berry
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Plants are both friend and enemy, source of health and, in certain instances, triggers of disease.
- Steven Gundry
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There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.
- Jim Crace
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
- Oliver Joseph Lodge
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As a director, I'm not the one animating every frame, every shot. I'm moving around like a surgeon on rounds, or a farmer checking in on all the plants being grown, pruning and adjusting. For me, it's a very exciting job.
- Henry Selick
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I really want to go to school for herbalism. Healing plants - that's a really big passion for me.
- Kerli
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I have a lot of plants - my living room is like a jungle. I like the idea of bringing the outside in.
- Samin Nosrat
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The fact that companies are getting into building power plants that collect their own CO2 on-site shows there's some leadership in that industry. Some industries have seen the writing on the wall: that carbon will have to be managed.
- Klaus Lackner
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I don't think you have a choice but to pull CO2 back that has already made it out, or is about to make it out, because we are not overnight shutting down all the coal plants.
- Klaus Lackner
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But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
- Paul Berg
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The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.
- James Hansen
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Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.
- Hayao Miyazaki
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I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.
- Gloria Vanderbilt
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I once had a gig in Gothenburg and went on the most unbelievable theme park ride, which was a rollercoaster built into a mountain that went through plants and tunnels. It was huge and a thrill to go on.
- Limahl
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This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.
- William Bligh
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A logical extension of our work on glycogen was to investigate the formation of starch in plants.
- Luis Federico Leloir
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Many coal-fired power plants are being decommissioned or switched over to natural gas, but that takes a long time.
- Porter Stansberry
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The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.
- Isabella Bird
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We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.
- Paul Watson
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When I do the street stuff, primarily it's jocular. But we've also gone and done serious packages at steel plants or in the inner city.
- Jesse Watters
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I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that.
- Kevin A. Ford
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The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.
- Charles Duhigg
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Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.
- Wilson Greatbatch
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RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.
- Craig Mello
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Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants.
- Richard Preston
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I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.
- Rupert Sheldrake
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If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that,' they might make it.
- Richard M. DeVos
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When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.
- Jeff Vandermeer
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God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees.
- Ann Coulter
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When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest.
- Bob Latta
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For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
- Zaha Hadid
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Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.
- Max Heindel
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That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.
- Tom Carper
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Americans were outraged by Russia's interference in our presidential election, but a wider threat is Russia's doctrine of hybrid warfare, which includes cybersabotage of critical American infrastructure from nuclear plants to electrical grids.
- Jeanne Shaheen
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Just having plants around helps with your mood. You feel relaxed.
- Pia Wurtzbach
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When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
- Anthony Trollope
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There are no coal plants on the drawing board for Duke, which leaves us with gas, renewables, and nuclear.
- Lynn Good
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
- Barbara McClintock
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Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
- Terence McKenna
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Folks are like plants; we all lean toward the light.
- Kris Carr
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When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.
- Roy Blount, Jr.
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The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.
- Robert Fortune
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The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.
- Robert Fortune
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So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower.
- Robert Fortune
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I've visited Lincoln Park Zoo more times than I can count because I believe the more the public learns about our animals, plants and environment, the better equipped we are to play a leading role in protecting our planet.
- Mike Quigley
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Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in objections and obstruction that, despite renewed interest on every continent, it is unlikely another will be built in the United States.
- Michael Specter
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As weird as it may seem, I enjoy doing laundry and watering my plants, very normal things like that.
- Kimberly Schlapman
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Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.
- Frances Beinecke
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Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
- Gale Norton
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
- A. J. Jacobs
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This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.
- Mark Bittman
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My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
- Jack Dangermond
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When I get up early, I appreciate the quiet time to enjoy a coffee or water my plants.
- Christina Tosi
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Some plants become weeds simply by virtue of their success rather than any other factor. You merely want less of them.
- Monty Don
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I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden is always the story of a person.
- Monty Don
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We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.
- Joyce Carol Oates
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Maine is the largest producer of wild blueberries in the world. The woody plants occur naturally in the sandy gravel understory of Maine's coastal forests, where little else bothers even trying to grow.
- Jeanne Marie Laskas
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Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
- Janine Benyus
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You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.
- DJ Khaled
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As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
- Ellsworth Huntington
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I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
- Edward Steichen
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Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches.
- Ron Eglash
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Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.
- Corneille Ewango
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