Northern forms existed in their own homes
Thousand - yellow - cocoons
Under - over - through
A few southern vegetable forms
On the mountains of borneo
Under - over -through
Donkey - peacock - goose
In the mouth of the river
A strange - scene - it is
Every - thing - in flames
The sky with lightning
And the water, luminous
A strange - scene - it is
Under - over - through
Six weeks old
Henrietta smiled for the first time
Tail - habits - proof
Instinct - that - moves
Emma saw him smile
Not only with lips
But eyes
Erasmus - grab - a spoon
Europe - hides - wool
Mr peacock and captain beaufort
Endemic - alpine - grooves
Bread-fruit - cinnamon - tunes
Tonight it's blowing
Thick bodies of spray whirled across the bay
Whatever - might - have been
The cause - of the - retreat
Columbia
Livia
"it is impossible no to be struck with the resemblance between
The foregoing movements of plants and many of the actions
Performed unconsciously by the lower animals.
Yet plants do not of course possess nerves or a central nervous
System; and we may infer that with animals such sctructures serve
Only for the more perfect transmission of impressions, and for the
More complete intercommunication of the several parts.
The movement of various organs to the light, and occasionally from
The light, are all modified forms of circumnutation; as again are the
Equally prevalent movements of stems etc. towards the zenith, and
Of roots towards the centre of the earth.
Gravitation excites plants to bend away from the centre of the earth,
Or towards it, or to place themselves in a transverse position with
Respect to it.
The couse pursued by the radicle in penetrating the ground must
Be determid by the tip; hence it has acquired such diverse kinds
Of sensitiveness.
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the tip of the radicle thus
Endowed, and having the power of directing the movements of the adjoining parts, acts like the brain of one of the lower animals."
Extracts from "the power of movement in plants" by charles darwin.
