Silver in Nature
- Plants
- A silver birch is a tree in the birch family. The leaves are whitish silver on underside.
- A silver fir is a valuable timber tree that originated in Europe.
- A silver maple is characterized by lacy, delicate leaves that are lighter grayish-green on the underside. These trees get their name from the shimmering effect the two-toned leaves give when fluttering in a breeze.
- Animals
- A silverfish is an insect which may eat paper or cloth.
- Many fish are colored silver.
- A silver fox is a "genetically determined phase of the common red fox in which the pelt is black tipped with white".
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Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or nature:
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice or wealth and chastity, which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;
So will a man’s reason vary with the quality of his friends.”
—Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)