A lot of plants hate disturbed ground, but these plants like a firing range.

Rare plants are rare because they've got strange habits.

I was like a big clumsy giant trying to do something that flies do better … The flower is probably maybe 1/8 of an inch to 1/4 of an inch across, and it's hard to even see without a magnifying glass. I was having to do it hit or miss like that.

This is an opportunity I'd hate to see us run out of town because we're distressful about a few different things.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

There are only about 4,000 marine-plant species compared with an estimated 250,000 species of terrestrial green plants. Similarly, of the 1.7 million-or-so known animal species, only about one-tenth are from oceans, with most of these living on or close to the bottom in relatively shallow water.