flora

Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words __o father_ have such a different meaning from the words __o mother_.

Emotional illiterates, who don__ recognize the sound of a broken heart, will never be able to hear the subtle vibrations of love reverberating through the rustling flora of life. ("Love as dizzy as a cathedral_)

There can be no doubt that the existing Fauna and Flora is but the last term of a long series of equally numerous contemporary species, which have succeeded one another, by the slow and gradual substitution of species for species, in the vast interval of time which has elapsed between the deposition of the earliest fossiliferous strata and the present day.

Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.