Sentences with phrase «only wild plants»

The life story of the northern Russian wilderness - dweller Nikodim Kozheozersky tells of how this saint, as is customary for hermits, ate only wild plants, an assertion that is not hindered even when the hagiographer announces in the next sentence that he also cultivated turnips for his diet.

Not exact matches

(Jeremiah 2:21) The prophets wonder why after all the trouble God took to bring the vine out of Egypt and carefully plant it and care for it, that God's choice vine could become bitter and produce only wild grapes.

«It's about the only place in town where you're going to find exotic foliage or wild flowering plants.»

Only in recent years have advances in genomics — and understanding how genetics play out in whole organisms — made it realistic for crop breeders to be able to identify traits in wild plants and selectively breed them into domestic stock.

«Not only are these insects vital as pollinators of crops and wild plants, but they also provide food for many birds and mammals,» said joint lead researcher Dr Ros Shaw, also of the University of Exeter.

Kristen Marhaver, who began this work while she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Merced, USA, said: «Now that we've successfully reared juvenile Pillar Corals in the lab, not only can we study them in more detail to find out what factors could be threatening their survival in the wild, but it also means that we can try to out - plant a small number back to the reef.

A booming trade in herbal remedies is threatening the survival of many medicinal plants found only in the wild, according to a study by TRAFFIC International, the organisation that monitors trade in wildlife.

Professor Anthony Amend and postdoctoral researcher Geoff Zahn used microbes to restore the health of a critically endangered Hawaiian plant that, until now, had been driven to extinction in the wild and only survived in managed greenhouses under heavy doses of fungicide.

«There are quite a few plant species that only exist in the «purgatory» of managed greenhouses, and quickly succumb to disease when they are taken to the wild and away from their regular fungicide treatments.

Eat only the plant foods you could find in the wild.

The idea is simply that for the first 99.5 % of our existence (ancestors back as far as 2 Million years ago, homo erectus), we only ate wild plants and animals, while for the last 0.5 % of our existence (since the agricultural revolution in the last 5,000 - 10,000 years), humans now almost entirely eat farmed plants and animals.

I hand - craft pure botanical skincare using only organically cultivated or ethically wild - harvest plant material and their by - products (oils, butters, etc.).

Post college, and throughout my certification course in California Native Plant Botany and Herbal Medicine, I continued to formulate skincare products, only this time, the ingredients included wild botanicals with potent chemical compounds.

Cats thrive on diets that are high in protein, moderate in fat, and incredibly low in carbohydrates; wild cats only eat carbohydrates when they consume the plant matter in their prey's stomachs (and, occasionally, when they chew on grass to settle their upset tummies).

Because hamsters are mostly herbivorous (the only animal food that your pet would eat in the wild would be the occasional insect), they are well - suited to digesting plant foods, including moderate amounts of fresh fruits like grapes.

Less is actually more here because dogs are mainly carnivores (animals who eat other animals, i.e. meat), and would only find a small amount of digested plant matter in their prey's stomach out in the wild.

In the wild, the only plant material cats eat comes from the stomach contents of their prey and it has already been partially digested.

As cat behavior expert John Bradshaw wrote, «Cats still have three out of four paws firmly planted in the wild, and within only a few generations can easily revert to the independent way of life that was the exclusive preserve of their predecessors some 10,000 years ago.»

In fact, most «wild» cats would only eat plants in the form of stomach contents of smaller prey they'd eat whole.

Almost 20 000 km2 of pristine Africa, home to an un-equaled diversity of wild animals, birds and plants, and only 50 mins from Sabie.

Each buddy has their own skills are useful in different mission types, but I really only found myself using D - Dog as his ability to sniff out enemies, plants and wild animals was almost always helpful.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

In the wild, Xate seeds only sprout after passing through the digestive systems of birds, so at the nursery they treat the seeds with hot water before planting them.