"These little leaves," he said, "are not the real leaves of the plant; they are only little food-supply leaves, little pockets to hold food for the plant to live on till it gets strong enough to push up into the air. As soon as the real leaves come out and begin to draw food from the air, these little substitutes wither up and fall off. These two lie folded up in the little seed from the beginning, and are full of plant food. They don't have to be very special in shape, you see, because they don't stay on the plant after it is grown up."英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
(343/1. Darwin used the knowledge of the spread of introduced plants in North America and Australia to throw light on the cosmic migration of plants. Sir J.D. Hooker apparently objected that it was not fair to argue from agrarian to other plants; he also took a view differing slightly from that of Darwin as to climatal and other natural conditions favouring introduced plants in Australia.)英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
P.S.--I do not know how far you will care to hear, but I find Moquin-Tandon treats in his 'Teratologie' on villosity of plants, and seems to attribute more to dryness than altitude; but seems to think that it must be admitted that mountain plants are villose, and that this villosity is only in part explained by De Candolle's remark that the dwarfed condition of mountain plants would condense the hairs, and so give them the APPEARANCE of being more hairy. He quotes Senebier, 'Physiologie Vegetale,' as authority--I suppose the first authority, for mountain plants being hairy.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-1》
"Do not plants which have male and female organs together [i.e. in the same flower] yet receive influence from other plants? Does not Lyell give some argument about varieties being difficult to keep [true] on account of pollen from other plants? Because this may be applied to show all plants do receive intermixture."英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-2》
On the last page of "Climbing Plants" Darwin wrote: "It has often been vaguely asserted that plants are distinguished from animals by not having the power of movement. It should rather be said that plants acquire and display this power only when it is of some advantage to them."英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
I hardly need tell you that the Christmas festivities of the children are largely held under the auspices of the little libraries, or that in the warmer season you will find the visitors and children taking excursions together to the lovelier spots in the woods and at the shore. Once a year, too, we have a sale of plants. Last spring we sold three hundred and eighty-three plants to the children for windows and gardens. We have promised that all who will appear this autumn with live plants shall have a treat.英文原著 · 《Library Work with Children》
In the pre-Christian era, As the winter solstice approached and the plants died, Pagans brought evergreen boughs into their homes As an act of sympathetic magic, intended To guard the life essences of the plants until spring.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》
by Frank Sinatra * Just what makes that little old ant * * Think he'll move that rubber tree plant * * Anyone knows an ant can't * * Move a rubber tree plant 'cause he's got * * High hopes * * He's got high hopes * * He's got...* Ms.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
Oh, I'm not growing anything except a big-ass weed plant on my nightstand.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》