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:
“They unhook their heavy swords
From golden and silver boughs;
But all that are killed in battle
Awaken to life again.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personal importance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)