John

“The Western Allies were fighting to preserve a balance of power which had favoured them for centuries”
― Frank McDonough, The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940–1945

“It would be better for me, they tell me, if I restrained myself. I tell them that if I did restrain myself I should become imbecile. I was a good-enough-tempered man once, I believe. People in my part of the country say they remember me so, but now I must have this vent under my sense of injury or nothing could hold my wits together.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“The angiosperms include the oaks and the ash, the Parrotia and the baobab, the eucalyptus and the laurels, the palm trees and the rhododendrons. The angio-, or container part of their name, denotes the fact that they have a carpel: a fleshy, adapted leaf that folds around the ovaries, meaning that pollen has to penetrate through some of the plant before it can produce seed. This was an extraordinarily powerful mechanism, because it gave the female plant—which here simply means the plant that will produce seeds and is therefore investing most nutrients in the potential offspring—the power of selection, a dogma-defying ability to determine its offspring’s DNA and therefore influence evolution.”
― Harriet Rix, The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

“They had adapted and shaped the humans”
― Harriet Rix, The Genius of Trees: How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World