When Charley blew through here, it stripped all the leaves off the mangrove trees, leaving the habitat of the black crowned night heron naked.

All birds from Florida migrate to Mexico when they go south, and if their habitat is destroyed in Florida, they don't return here to mate and create more birds.

She said that's how she learned to cope, by thinking about how we're all stripped leaves in a sense, ... That's a healthy way to look at it.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply.

Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.