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Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. -- Antoine Lavoisier
One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them. -- Mahavira
Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere. -- Freeman Dyson
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. -- Jessamyn West
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments. -- Natalie Jeremijenko
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. -- Gail Sheehy
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. -- Ronald Reagan
Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic reasons. Nature is moving and making new things. -- Theo Jansen
One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water, and lush vegetation, this tiny green swath of land is my idea of paradise. -- Nina Garcia
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. -- Ellsworth Huntington
There's even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you to literally strip away vegetation and see entire cities beneath the rain forest canopy. This is the unbelievable future of archaeology. -- Sarah Parcak
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 to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and even water in different ways, depending on the landscapes you're examining. -- Sarah Parcak
When a wall is slowly covered over by earth, the materials it's made from decay and become part of the soils around and above it, sometimes causing vegetation above and next to the wall to grow faster or slower. Satellite imagery helps archaeologists to pick up these subtle changes. -- Sarah Parcak
Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush. -- Noam Chomsky
Winter is the night of vegetation. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
The triumph of vegetation is total. -- Michel Houellebecq
College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation -- Vera Brittain
The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words themselves become beings, sentences becomenatural vegetation to be guided by the gardener's hands. -- Eric Sevareid
Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. -- Ronald Reagan
Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity. -- Gilles Clement
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Has anyone done research on herbs, trees and vegetation referred to in the Bible? Share your thoughts. -- Sudhir Ahluwalia
The terrain is thinner, the vegetation is greener, that's a good sign we're getting close to the coast. -- Joe Teti
I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture. -- John Burroughs
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
Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. -- Hans Arp
One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding. -- Alice Walker
Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not depletable energy capital. -- Amory Lovins
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world. -- William Macneile Dixon
From 50 centuries, we can learn about the close relationship between garden design and urban design, because both arts involve the composition of buildings with paving, landform, water, vegetation and climate. -- Tom Turner
Just as the light and weightless vegetation of saltpeter floats over the old walls of houses as soon as the owner gets careless, so the literary vocation springs up in you. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
Trolls have 5,400 words for rocks and one for vegetation. Oograah means everything from moss to giant redwoods. The way trolls see it, if you can't eat it, it's not worth naming it. -- Terry Pratchett
Sky is grey, vegetation is plastic, and mankind is pale, for we have spent our days conceiving unnecessary tools for our arousal, and so we hide the nakedness of nature with brutal machinnes. -- Shawn Lukas
Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the empire of vegetation to the liberation of oxygen. -- Ferdinand von Mueller
Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves, and the various colors of flowers, is chiefly owing to this combination. -- Antoine Lavoisier

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