Xylem/main Function - Upwards Water Transport

Famous quotes containing the words main, function, water and/or transport:

    “I think the main thing, don’t you, is to keep the show on the road.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.”
    —Robert Warshow (1917–1955)

    “What’s water but the generated soul?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and ... powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)