“You can’t escape the cultural associations embodied by plants. You can’t have one without the other.” ScienceCultureNatureNonfictionNatural WorldPlantsKudzuInvasive SpeciesInvasiveNative Species Book:Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South Source: Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South
“The vegetation grew so dense the road looked like a square slice of cake taken out clean with a knife. Although the wet tropics covers less than one percent of Australia, it contains almost half of our bird species, a third of our mammal species, more than half of our butterfly species, and over seven hundred plant species endemic to the area. The rain forest seemed to inhale and exhale in a sweaty tangle of heaving bio matter.” AustraliaBirdsMammalsQueenslandRainforestTropicsNative SpeciesDaintree Book:Stranger Country Source: Stranger Country