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)
“Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but find her our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Lions, wolves, and vultures don’t live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbour, and yet we herd together.”
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