Plants and Animals
Plants found in the garden include Japanese Black Pine, Camphor trees, Azalea, Persea, Japanese Iris, Platycodon grandiflorus, Crinum latifolium, Japanese Wisteria, Leopard plant, and Spider Lily.
Wildlife include Little Egrets, Spotbill, and Carps, seasonally also Tufted Ducks, Northern Pintails, and Common Pochards.
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Famous quotes containing the words plants and, plants and/or animals:
“We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.”
—A.J. (Arnold Joseph)
“The holly and the ivy
Are plants that are well known
Of all the trees that grow in the woods
The holly bears the crown.”
—Unknown. The Holly and the Ivy (l. 1–4)
“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. We love to see animals fighting, not the victor raving over the vanquished.... It is the same in gambling, and the same in the search for truth.... We never seek things for themselves—what we seek is the very seeking of things.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)