Vegetation Quotations

Embalm, v.: To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and the rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutaeus maximus.

As the city continues to grow and more and more natural vegetation is being paved over, we've noticed less storms rolling into the valley because the heat island basically steers storms and weather patterns away from an area,

On an earthen dam, if you don't do maintenance and you have vegetation growth, tree roots penetrate into the soil and then it weakens the soil or creates cracks or gaps where water can seep in.

Changes are not predictable; but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation

It burned hot and aggressive and spread fast because of the winds in the lighter vegetation and more south-facing slopes, then it tempered down when it got into the heavier timber area.

Winter is the night of vegetation.

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation

Clyde brings to us a valuable combination of technical, sales and customer support experience. He has substantial experience training state and county right-of-way managers, Florida Parks personnel, and private landowners on vegetation management practices and new application techniques.

If you had too many elk, deer and mountain goats in a given unit, they eat the vegetation and they would actually destroy their own habitat if we allowed them to grow without check.

We wanted this property because we wanted to preserve the wooded area, because we wanted to preserve the vegetation and because we wanted to preserve the wildlife. What is it going to do to it if we build this? What kind of equipment will be going back there?