He crossed his feet, planted his elbow on her knee and waited. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the limited variety of wild starting material suitable for plant domestication, even Africa’s earliest agriculture may have begun several thousand years later than that of the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s remnant luciferin on this plant life,” I say, telling the truth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The resulting artificial habitat was meant only for humans and 'their' plants and animals, and was often fenced off by walls and hedges. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

That persistence of Chinese writing in Japan and Korea is a vivid 20th-century legacy of plant and animal domestication in China nearly 10,000 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Please, it was easier than planting Trojans in Canadian discount drug spam. You know, Spaceman, you just might have the chops to run this dude down.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He kept one foot planted on the chain’s anchor and his thumb on the UP button. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I thought of that waitress and her helping, and I lifted one foot up and planted it in the snow. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He said he could use them for labeling his plants. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Should he have refused to allow all of his employees safe refuge within the gates of the plant? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

That combination of high rainfall and summer rains gives Japan the highest plant productivity of any nation in the temperate zones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Such increased competition among plants themselves made a major contribution to larger seed size and to many other changes developing during the transformation of wild plants into ancient crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the beep, we all turned to gape at the big man, planted behind the wheel of this old beater of a K-Car. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was his favorite part of the afternoon, or should have been: the sun bright and hot in the sky, the plants twitching their green fingers. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Civilian Conservation Corps planted millions of kuzu seedlings to fight soil loss, a major fear in the era of the Dust Bowl. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mulberry trees were planted all over the United States. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Strip off the bark, and the grayish inside of the plant is moist and sweet—you can suck it between your teeth and drink in the juice. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When we invented agriculture, we had to take care to plant and harvest our crops in the right season. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She must have plucked it from the plant in the alley. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

It’s Rabbi Gold who planted the phantom cousins in my mind—the ones who never had a chance to be born. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“See the tiny little saplings and green sprigs growing out of it? It’s become a home for other plants. Pretty cool, huh?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She went out and gave my father a good talking to, shaking her finger at him across a row of tomatoless tomato plants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Welch High School display of plant fossils found in coal mines seemed our stiffest competition. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of them jumped down from a front step and planted himself right in front of Maniac. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere plants and trees are suspended in water, the same way they were in the Amity greenhouses. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Tony’s not very bright, but he has a sort of clumsy tenderness that sometimes prompts him to give his mother a rough hug and plant a sticky kiss on her cheeks. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

When the fat moon rose the next night, I planted the mystery seeds I had taken from Momma’s jar. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the fact that heptachlor, after a short period in the tissues of animals or plants or in the soil, assumes a considerably more toxic form known as heptachlor epoxide. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And it occurred to me that cleared of its ramshackle fences and planted with flowers and grass, it might form a pleasant park. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plastic flowers were planted around the edge, and a weather vane topped by a spouting whale stood in the center. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to piece together the sequence of events, and when I get to the bottom of it, I believe that the plant loss is not just a defeat; it's a sign. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But Naylor’s farm is one link in a chain that includes fossil fuels, artificial fertilizer, pesticides, heavy machinery, feedlots, antibiotics, and processing plants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Only now they weren’t chemical explosions; they were studies of plants, mostly orchids and a flower called Vrosera. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate liver almost every day until the first plants emerged, and I never had any more trouble. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A farmer might plant a dozen or more different varieties at one time, adjusting the mix from season to season in order to manage the risk of a crop failure. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There were some plants that Ultima could not obtain on the llano or the river, but many people came to seek cures from her and they brought in exchange other herbs and roots. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of him as my mother drove up in the darkness to the processing plant. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

While the plants ripened, one large group of slaves was sent off to cut the wood to fire the boiling vats, while another spent its days carting the timber back to the boiling house. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Many grew plants from their native lands—huge Chinese melons, ginger, cilantro, a green the Jamaicans call calaloo, and many more. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snail planted his seeds when the first rains arrived. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We planted the flowers by the porch, turning over the soil and patting it around them, and watering. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

What with all her baking and decorating and gift making, this was her favorite time of the year, next to spring planting. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m El Patron’s clone. I was visiting the water purification plant and got lost. Better yet, you can take me to the Big House and I’ll send a message to him.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plant it was made from sprang up first when Prometheus’ blood dripped down upon the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t plant any vegetables above where you bury those rodents. They got enough poison in ’em to bring down an elephant.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I plucked a ruby off the nearest plant and threw it at Hades. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I bolted down the hall, clutching Fig against my thundering chest, and planted myself in front of the TV. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The first I clicked on, the Danag, was a Filipino vampire supposedly responsible for planting taro on the islands long ago. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“We could give that. Or, you know what? We could give up the bicycle. Bury the money and . . . plant the seeds.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other places there were the dry sticks of some sort of climbing plant which had wound itself round the pillars and helped to pull some of them down. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It destroyed all the wheat my family had planted that year and made the land useless for years to come. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The French were barely able to sustain trading posts in the St. Lawrence and didn’t even try to plant their flag in pre-epidemic New England. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My mother sometimes said proudly that this plant was the cleanest in Georgia. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what it is; standing up to Heather, planting marigold seeds, or maybe the look on Mom’s face when I asked if she would let me redecorate my room. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Those plants are automated,” said the border guard. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not me. There were always small snakes in my mother’s garden. She said they were friends to the plants.They ate bugs.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he could get the time off from his job at the filtration plant, he’d drive twelve hours across Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to catch one of Craig’s games. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On the last day of his junior year, exactly two months after his life had burst like a thunderhead, Finn walked home from the bus stop past plants already up to his waist. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Talking to herself didn’t seem like such a bad idea there in the outer ruins, where the relics of the Rusties struggled against the grip of creeping plants. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I could imagine what a disappointing wish that would be for a six-year-old, but I had to plant crops. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They made indifferent sentinels, for in many places their ranks had been broken by the rhubarb plant, and they lay with crumpled heads and listless stems, making a pathway for the rabbits. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The grassland was lush with plants, in spite of it being only the beginning of the rainy season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

First off, Kite was a Kalbro man, and as far as I knew the plant was still on a three-years-without-injury streak, so I didn’t think he’d be the guy to patch me up. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Then Cinderella lifts up to an arabesque. She follows through, plants her foot down in front of her, and does a forward bend.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were to blow up the steel towers carrying high-tension wires to the plant to cut off the power supply. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I kept my eyes focused on the bleak, unpainted spectator stands, abandoned for so long that tiny plants had started to push their green heads through the cracks in the cement. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard work, but I lose myself in the simple rhythm of digging a hole and planting a seed on repeat. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Thousands more found good-paying work at manufacturing plants with names redolent of an era of sweat and muscle—Vulcanized Rubber and Plastics, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, Rohm and Haas, General Motors. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You say you’ve seen these plants?” said Bigwig, turning his ears to catch the distant rustling of the beans. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

You might be lucky enough to be trained as a specialist—the person who watched the cane grow and who kept an eye out for when the plants were ripe and ready to be cut. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He plants himself on the blue sofa, refusing to budge. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I got most of the ones you asked for. I was just looking for a planting pot.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The plant would have blown up if nobody had paid attention.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brown curls stood up on my head like a field planted with question marks. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He believes that the shape, colour and texture of a plant can be a clue to how it will work as a medicine because God designed nature to be interpreted by mankind. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mr. Moss was planted in his recliner, smoking and staring at the television screen. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Not only did the adults prefer the nectar from certain kinds of flowers, but they laid eggs only on certain plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

All through that first hard year, gifts had arrived, of produce that the Ashidas had not yet planted—baskets of asparagus, lettuce. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was like we planted a beautiful flower,” he says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Stick leaned forward, planting his fists on the tabletop. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Vemork was a vital target, Wilson explained, because it was the only plant in the world capable of producing large quantities of “heavy water.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adoption of intensive food production from the Asian mainland was also very slow and piecemeal in Japan, probably because the hunter-gatherer lifestyle based on seafood and local plants was so productive there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The plants were stunted anyhow, with few flowers and less fruit. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poisonous plants were growing in the bed just outside the house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Our wounds were then dressed with a healing plant, the leaves of which were thorny on the outside but smooth on the inside, which absorbed the blood and other secretions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Features of American wild plants also contributed to the lesser competitiveness of Native American food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many others are destroyed merely because they happen to be associates of the unwanted plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and animals. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when I finally came out from behind Aly, he lifted me right up onto his hip and planted a big kiss on my cheek. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

How this delicate orchid somehow sprouted when no other plant could. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow, then,” Sticky said, hurriedly grinding a plant root between two rocks. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to stand with his legs planted in the ground.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even on sunny days the sky was a dark, dirty gray along the southern shore, courtesy of Central Michigan Electric’s coal-burning plant, located only a few short miles from town. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Where all other plants have shed their leaves, the sage remains evergreen, the gray-green leaves — bitter, aromatic, rich in proteins, fats, and needed minerals — clinging to the stems of the dense and shrubby plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Two yellow bowls, a pink pot with a green leafy plant, a strand of paper snowflakes. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to their extinctions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Lou started to step out, remembered her state, and ducked back behind the taro plant. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

While they romped, Jello took the opportunity to rest behind a clump of sedge, a moisture-loving plant of the tundra. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fields were bare and planted with winter wheat, and Ada sat in her chair in the living room and stared outdoors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have their hands cut off and their brothers turned into swans, their lovers chopped up and planted in basil pots. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I also check out a moist pocket by the stream for groundnuts and am rewarded with a string of three- inch nuts on the roots of one plant. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stick will sting, boys.The ash plant will whistle through the air, it will land on the backside of the boy that jeers, the boy that sneers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His brother moved precisely, each foot planted firmly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had declined the sauteed new greens, the tender and expensive leaves of bean plants plucked before the sprouts turn into beans. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plant would be a valuable pain reliever for Old Benedikt, who was suffering from gout. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My feet push me past those haters, toward the microphone, and plant themselves center stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I hear Miss Celia hollering instructions on how to plant a bush. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I worried a great deal at the time, but people are like plants. Some shoot up like weeds, and some are slow like fruit trees. In the end, the fruit trees are worth more.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’ll never take me on a fairy hunt on Sagan that is sure to have even more plants and imaginary fairies than anywhere on Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon she harvested wild cotton plants to use in her pads. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The true-bred pea plants, he noted, possessed distinct traits that were hereditary and variant. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It did not look strong enough to bear fruit, did not look useful at all, like most of the plants here. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I plant my sandals beside the white square on the dirt and lift the bat in the air, trying to imitate the coach's stance. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I said: “It was your idea to plant more things, and I agreed that it was right. Now surely you want them to grow.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He asked to see the hibiscus plant on the ledge behind him. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cut to it and I see he’s not near me so I plant and fly. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

More rains would come and the seeds would grow into tall plants with heavy ears of corn. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She hugs me back and plants a big kiss on my forehead. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

June marched right over to the ladder and planted a foot on the bottom rung. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She saw the newly planted woad settle in, nestled where she had laid it gently beside the yellow bedstraw. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the laundry room at the back of the house, the lawns rolled away, so smooth and closely mown, the ground itself seemed green rather than planted with grass. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In particular, archaeologists often cite considerably older claimed dates for domesticated plants at Coxcatlan Cave in Mexico, at Guitarrero Cave in Peru, and at some other American sites than the dates given in the table. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just by watching Dedd lay the small plants in the ground, MamS would know the doings in her heart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. P had three plants in his classroom. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

They collected an additional four thousand crates of pond lily roots, which Olmsted’s men quickly planted, only to watch most of the roots succumb to the ever-changing levels of the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He snakes down the walkway, shouting for Byrd until he finds her, curled over a planter that is missing its plants. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I walk over to a dying potted plant, in this city full of potted plants, wedged in a corner of Heidi’s first floor lobby. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The last time we drove down south, he had planted a pecan tree in Ma Charles’s yard for shade. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Anastasia likes to hire professional gardeners, but Dad planted the tulips himself. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Pa planted a kiss on Big Ma’s cheek like he hadn’t driven all the way from Brooklyn with her earlier. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A trailing plant with flowers like small white stars had bound itself across the brows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His shirt still has the sour smell from the paper plant. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The island’s pottery, some of it very large, has long been celebrated for its painted and incised representations of animals and plants, which are ornately entan- gled in a profusion that recalls the forest itself. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Nine herons stand like flowers in the canal beside the coking plant. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Nathan looked around and saw that the plants around them had a white blanket of sharp frost. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And his gaze traveled upward from legs planted so firmly they might as well have been tree trunks to a torso carved of stone, immovable, ivory arms, up to a blanched face that— Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The frontispiece for Maria’s caterpillar book features the first caterpillar she ever studied: the silkworm, perched on its host plant of mulberry leaves. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I planted my feet firmly in the dirt and fought to keep my voice polite and proper. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Indeed. Your fame is spreading, children. And Jacob, you heal mortal wounds with just your hands, some plants, and a prayer. Is this not unique?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She grew up listening to the work songs of the black women shucking oysters at the J. S. Darling processing plant that wafted up to the pedestrians on the Queen Street Bridge above. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The seeds reminded Janie of Tea Cake more than anything else because he was always planting things. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Should the plant become genetically reprogrammed so as to germinate at a time more appropriate to Canada—say, late June—the plant would still be in trouble for other reasons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I’m drying myself off, I wonder if I could plant a traumatic memory in Finn’s brain, something so shocking that he’d stop eating so much. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Farmers clear small fields with axes and machetes, burn off the chaff and refuse, and plant their seeds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Come four o'clock in the afternoon, Grandma would let me go with her to the garden in the rear of the backyard to water what she called her four-o'clock plants. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A guard planted a kick in the old mans ribs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The plant’s windows were covered with black paint, blocking light from escaping and making the building nearly invisible to enemy bombers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had started to say that since I could only plant and cultivate so much, I had not included beets—and quite a few other things, like pumpkins, turnips, squash, and so on. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some microbial communities extend so deeply into the affairs of higher forms of life as to seem like new kinds of tissue in plants and animals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In creating modern maize from this unpromising plant, Indians performed a feat so improbable that archaeologists and biologists argued for decades over how it was achieved. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As we shall see in the next chapter, the corresponding problem for domestication of big wild mammals proves easier to solve, because there are many fewer species of them than of plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Matt grasped the wall and inched himself upward until he was able to plant his feet against the stone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

GMO corn is not bred the old-fashioned way, by crossing corn plants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

True, rabbits could not eat these plants: he could smell that. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nägeli was studying another plant—the yellow-flowering hawkweed—and he urged Mendel to try to reproduce his findings on hawkweed as well. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You have to clear out the rocks before you can plant, sugar. Or nothing will grow.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The porches seem more overpopulated with knickknacks and hanging plants than I remember. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He plants his hands on either side of my head and leans over me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I put in when I planted the garden because I thought that would be useful to know next year. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Zach planted students out there to give him bogus directions: “Make a left at the music room, down the stairs, through the double doors, then two rights and a hard left at the furnace....” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

They got up and poked around, and soon they came across a plant whose branches were laden with the purple fruits, about the size of small beets, only softer. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m now only missing a potted plant for the libation. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In the dark street, they met Kjell Nielsen, an engineer at the plant, and a man they knew could be trusted. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jomon sites often contain remains of edible plants that are native to Japan as wild species but are also grown as crops today, including adzuki bean, mung bean, and barnyard millet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she opened the window and jumped out, falling onto the hydrangea bushes that her Aunt Ferula had planted long ago. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was planting time, and the backs of the field hands were bent as they leaned over the long rows, sun glistening on their bare backs. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fig seemed to sense my exasperation and planted his chonky body between me and my nemesis. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The Aesir were warlike gods of battle and conquest; the Vanir were softer, brother and sister gods and goddesses who made the soils fertile and the plants grow, but none the less powerful for that. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She looks up from her tea, planting her elbows on the island and leaning toward me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I can use these to create invisibility potions. They won’t work for very long and you cannot tell my parents because I’m not even supposed to have this plant.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t decide what part of this scene I represented: the plants about to be rescued from the bugs or the bugs about to be murdered by the spray. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They talked about medicine and Gardenia’s plants, which covered the windows and counters. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Drawing diagrams of the plant buildings, he showed each man where to position himself during the attack. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm a botanist and mechanical engineer; basically, the mission's fix-it man who played with plants. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Potted plants had been knocked to the ground, and the dirt spilled everywhere. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

As soon as the group of friends went into the plantings the air became impregnated with a fatal fragrance. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The failure of the Khoisan and Pygmies to develop agriculture was due not to any inadequacy of theirs as farmers but merely to the accident that southern Africa’s wild plants were mostly unsuitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kwang, though, kept pushing, adding to his wholesale stores by eventually leasing plants in North Carolina to assemble in part the machines he sold for the Italian and German manufacturers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Grandma was outside, we followed her into the gated backyard, where we rolled around with our big red wagon and helped her water all the plants. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Esperanza had told him that a man named Guillermo was responsible for that; her parents could study the science behind those plants, but were horrible at any gardening themselves. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Imagine a creature so unlike other animals that scholars once believed it was a plant.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The bunny was busy rooting around in a corner behind a ficus plant and paid Mr. Jeet no attention. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They were everywhere, but he wasn’t actually Sure that birds ate plants. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I visit with the corn kernels planted deep within Pachamama’s body as they eagerly stretch out their first roots. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The song “Weevily Wheat” refers to wheat that is infested with beetles or weevils that destroy the plants. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Small artillery fire whined around them, and grenades exploded, throwing plants and dirt into the air. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

We drive past the same kind of ruins I saw when we left the city—the buildings collapsing under their own weight, and the plants roaming wild over the land, breaking through concrete. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His finger moved from his lips toward my face and hovered, waiting for a place to plant its blessing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because tobacco seeds require loads of water for them to break ground, many farmers plant nursery beds by the dambos where they can easily water them daily. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

For normal potato farmers, it's not worth doing because they're working with literally millions of potato plants. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though most of Japan escaped the glaciers that blanketed Britain and Canada, Japan was still cold, dry, and extensively covered with conifer and birch forests offering little plant food to humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The plant had one other, rather unique use: it ended unwanted pregnancy. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Farther down was the green blur of another tree that his ancestors had planted to exit the flooding of this world. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The poultry plant bus came each day to pick up adults and take them to the factory where they would daily pluck, hack, and process thousands of chickens. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Those who find an answer to all problems in spraying also overlook a matter of great scientific importance — the need to preserve some natural plant communities. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This was filled with a blue flower, a rock plant of some sort, and the overflow hung down the vent and spilled lavishly among the canopy of the forest. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She looked again and saw them stacking bundles of dried plants beside the new shed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath, loving the fresh whiff of dirt and growing plants. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Just big mats of floating plants going by with stilty-legged birds walking around and around on top, every one of them no doubt thinking he’s king of the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just smiled at Mikayla’s mom, and something passed between them that I couldn’t understand, and then Mom and I had this beautiful, magical plant for our greenhouse. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Not much grew around Midland other than the Joshua tree, cacti, and the scrubby little creosote bushes that Dad said were some of the oldest plants on the planet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I loved being in my classroom with its plants, the big fish tank, and mahogany desks. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I consider knocking over some flowerpots, but that wouldn’t be fair to the innocent plants, who are only trying to lead a peaceful existence of photosynthesis and respiration. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd planted Mo's cutting two years ago and hardly visited after that. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He needed to destroy America's infrastructure by blowing up factories, power plants, water supply systems, and bridges. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Scientists of the Dutch Plant Protection Service did not recommend chemical sprays or soil treatments; instead, they suggested that marigolds be planted among the roses. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“At home on Nunivak Island where I was born, the plants and birds pointed the way for wanderers. I thought they did so everywhere...and so, great black Amaroq, I’m without a compass.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I made orange juice out of the oranges you planted in my bag,” I tell him, coming to my senses. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s good to have roots. Gives the soil something to hold on to, and it’s nice to watch something you’ve planted grow.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Once it had lost the head start that it had enjoyed thanks to its locally available concentration of domesticable wild plants and animals, the Fertile Crescent possessed no further compelling geographic advantages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The overseer, startled by this sudden obstructing body, planted squarely in the doorway, turned away from the door, picked up a two-pound weight from the counter, and hurled it at the fleeing slave. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They eat the same things we do and treat themselves with medicine from certain plants. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He’s bringing water to the workers holed up behind the locked fence of Huntington Beach power plant. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Drivers say it is enough to worry about officers planting drugs on their trucks and demanding bribes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what most of the trees and plants are, but there are a lot of them. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Except to walk around them when they planted themselves in front of her, she in no way acknowledged their existence. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

While the others broke dirt clods and struggled with roots, picked stones and smoothed out rough rows to plant, Pinch pretended to help. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She was more comfortable with plants than with people, Lina’s father had always said. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I liked exploring the rows of plants—they offered some shade from the Mississippi sun, and if the wind blew even a little, the plants swayed and stirred up air that seemed almost cool. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She tucked my little Korean Fire plant into the soil, and so I told her about its name and its story and about how it blooms, always, even in the winter. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The legend that the herbicides are toxic only to plants and so pose no threat to animal life has been widely disseminated, but unfortunately it is not true. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He faced the water and planted his foot, so he looked like some explorer who’d just claimed a new country. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement—plants and animals each inhaling the other’s exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each house had a high wall, over which peeped jacarandas, wisteria and Kenya coffee trees, which towered over the other plants. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Only the great Paqo could be sure of the proper day to begin planting. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

You could barely see the rows they had been planted in. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

These changes in vegetation influenced the animals that ate the plants and the carnivores that ate the vegetarians. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the peoples want surpleases of blossoms in those hard stone walls, they plant violets and other dainty purple and blue and white flowers. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

But curious or hungry children of early farmers, nibbling wild plants around them, would eventually have sampled and noticed those nonbitter almond trees. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The backyard is too small and all the plants are dead,” he’d said. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

War plants and shipyards demanded birth certificates, and mine would reveal me to be fifteen, and ineligible for work. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Africa as elsewhere in the world, some peoples were much “luckier” than others, in the suites of domesticable wild plant and animal species that they inherited from their environment. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The driver dropped off the truck at the ice plant and then pointed him toward the right street. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My father woke up the next morning with a horrible rash on his hands and arms, presumably wounded by the plant that bites. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the plants had been waiting for any amount of moisture. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Adam began to visit the ice plant, and pretty soon he was taking his little cups to the freezing chambers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He backed off a step, spread his legs, planted his feet firmly. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The plants were not arranged in straight lines, but rather in slow, big curves, like a loose letter S. And of course in the background, at the horizon, rose mountains. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Unlike the other plants, I notice this plant doesn’t have a single nibble mark or bug on its surface, even though it's spread out everywhere. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two contrasting explanations suggest themselves: problems with the local people, or problems with the locally available wild plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The tropical rain forests are the deep reservoirs of life on the planet, containing most of the world’s plant and animal species. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would go so high the plants would change, and the river that flows past the village would become a waterfall. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no one would seriously describe this evolutionary process as domestication, because birds and bats and other animal consumers don’t fulfill the other part of the definition: they don’t consciously grow plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

One very useful function of natural plant communities — now pretty generally stigmatized as “weeds” — is to serve as an indicator of the condition of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He plants his elbows on the rough gray wood of the table and picks up his burger. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We pass milpitas, and big spiky maguey plants with white sheets and colorful laundry drying upon them. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I think what started it was the stupid comment I’d made the day we were planting tulips, about getting new servants. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Farmers had finished harvesting their soybeans, milo, and alfalfa and had planted their winter wheat. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The heat is subsiding a little, but I'm more woozy planting today than on even the hottest days. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Just checking up on you,” she said, straightening that awful colossal flower planted behind her right ear. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I thought we could plant them along the side of the house.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

That was about five years ago; after that he merely kept the field mowed but not planted. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he clomps down the ramp, planting his feet with such force the boards bounce beneath him. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

On this mound, among the grasses and the plants, stood Rontu. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caesar and his father took care of the planting and the stables, his mother the domestic affairs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Under the grotesque, magnificent shell with a face like Quasimodo’s, there was shame and self-loathing which had been planted there when he was tiny, by something which it is now too late to trace. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dark yellow plant from the rocky mesa top smelled like wet tobacco; she laid it beside the ocher sandstone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the Darwins had first moved to Down House, Charles had planted flowers so that Emma would be as happy there as she had been at Maer. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

No man in Castle Black knew the woods as well as Dywen did, the trees and streams, the plants that could be eaten, the ways of predator and prey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The man was quickly hidden by the poppy plants. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the earliest identified crops were two drought-resistant species of millet in North China, but rice in South China, suggesting the possibility of separate northern and southern centers of plant domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine a Canadian farmer foolish enough to plant a race of corn adapted to growing farther south, in Mexico. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I believe he knew that he was in his own bed, that his books and his notes and his small hibiscus plant were nearby. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the plants lay a large pie tin full of milk where a crowd of hummingbirds were feeding. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Also she can’t say how the carrot gets in, to plant the seeds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the ancient wood began to rise, tearing free from plants and earth, bending the rail that lay across it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Around the edge of the circular greenhouse, plants and trees grow in troughs of water or small pools. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, these colorful compositions of insects and plants were much more artistically pleasing than Goedart’s rows of specimens on a white background. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Livestock ordinarily avoid this plant unless forced to turn to it in late winter and early spring by lack of other forage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Pointing into the ice, she said, “See that potted plant on the desk in there?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They could edge along them, deep in the plant world, their faces to the rock. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We grew suspicious, for a stranger in our midst probably meant a SIM plant with a fabricated name. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Corn was sowed long before vines were planted. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His first chapter is instead a lengthy account of how our domesticated plants and animals arose through artificial selection by humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though exhausted, ill, and anxious about the voyage ahead, they carried evidence of a vast, teeming, interconnected ecosystem of plants and insects, the likes of which the great European academies had never seen. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s full of books and plants she tends to with complex spreadsheets of watering schedules. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The plant is, on first inspection, a common member of the lowly pasture Vicia villosa, also known as hairy vetch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But the look of sympathy on the hippie’s face was so honest, so pure, that it planted the emotions inside my heart. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Here they meandered in their tiny sailboats, tacking and coming about; they painted, hoed, swept, and planted when the mood for therapeutic work struck them, and lolled on the beach when they felt like it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then it sleeps, eats, and sunbathes until it’s ready to flower— a teenage plant. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Look how they’re arranged. It’s hard to see because the place is a shambles, but it looks like they were growing in rows. Like someone planted them.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She walked up to her wife and planted a kiss on her cheek while Njemile dropped a big bag of greens on the counter. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The most unequivocal evidence comes from identification of plant and animal remains at archaeological sites. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the funniest thing is, all they were doing was looking for plants. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And the auto factory must have been the Solara plant that Parker relocated to Colorado. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I kneel at the edge of the lake to collect the underwater plant samples the drones couldn’t reach. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Like the raised beds in temperate-zone gardens, they promote drainage and increase the amount of topsoil available to plants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She just kept raising her kids, working various jobs as a barber, notary public, chemical mixer at a cement plant, grocery store clerk, limousine driver. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

May we suggest to you that the plant be known as Vicia tateii? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The late-afternoon sun dances off the tops of the maple trees that are planted all along the parkway. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Those two trees were the only plant life he could see. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

In contrast to its all-black surface, the submarine section of the Rock of Nisir was vividly bright, clad in rosy coral and coated in plant life. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

With the help of the Hitler Youth and BDM, farmers planted more crops and reaped bountiful harvests. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Andrew is not exaggerating: The journal is little more than a tally of plants foraged and game killed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around her, poisonous plants grew and burst like overfilled balloons. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Personally, I’m more comfortable with plants than dead animals. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There they began to apply skills they had learned from the Muslims: how to plant sugar cane, and how to refine sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Big Ma planted her hand on the table and searched upward. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But this horned toad wore furry plant roots as bracelets and even a necklace of sweetgrass. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She walked past them, planting her stick firmly in the ground with each step, planning to nod if they acknowledged her. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The former plants are termed self-incompatible hermaphrodites; the latter, dioecious species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed too hard, and she planted one hand beneath the water behind her to keep from falling over. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The dark surface of the water was disturbed by trout that had been planted there. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can’t possibly hope to examine all the wild plant species of even a circumscribed area like California, and to assess how many of them would have been domesticable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was not room for the wheat in that field, so I planted it—about a half acre—in the far field beyond the pond. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They had begun placing land mines around the plant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma’s voice called up the few memories I had of her—singing me to sleep, planting together with Nan in her old garden, the two of us driving in the car. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

An even more obvious factor behind the delay was the wild animals and plants available for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were plants here, in places where wind-borne seeds had dropped into the rocky crevices and been nourished by melted snow, sprouting now in this early spring, their stems reaching up. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Foxgloves and larkspurs formed a tidy bed framed by other plants Matt didn’t recognize. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever the plants threw the dancers up into the air or kissed a woman with sloppy affection, the elf flinched as though her head were being bitten off. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Jaja asked, staring at a plant close to the barbed wire fencing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stood in the doorway with both feet planted. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I watched from a short distance as the shaman studied the koka plant intently, examining the leaf patterns and listening to their inner wisdom. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He doubted whether the republican principles planted by the founding generation would grow in foreign soil. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Some agricultural crops and many wild plants are partly or wholly dependent on the services of the native pollinating insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Gray like the others surrounding it except for the roses my mother planted around its border just before I was born; they still bloomed each spring around this time, without fail. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Leaned and turned the tomato plants on the sill. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The plant uses the carbohydrates it makes as an energy source to go about its planty business. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Pierre went to great lengths: he planted stories about the Patriarch of Antioch in Dutch and French newspapers on the offchance that Boyle would come across them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Finally, I fired up the fuel plant, and it got to work making the additional fuel I'd need. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mealies grew in clumps as though they had sprouted from entire ears dropped from unharvested plants. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was just her empty shell over there, whereas here I could touch things she had touched, look out on the flowering plants she had looked at, and walk through her house. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The fig is as tall as Axel, while some plants in the space are as tiny as eggs. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was an agitated flurry of tree plantings, memorial services, fund-raisers and concerts. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Virgil imagined an alternate reality, one where he stopped—feet firmly planted on the ground—and looked Chet Bullens square in the eye. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He even pulled up a few of our peanut plants, so we could boil them for a snack later. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, they survive by making seeds, which have to be planted every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Summertime, when children were sent to the fields to help plant and weed, was peak season for rats and field mice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But much of the transformation was also effected as a result of plants’ selecting themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had treated my forehead with a poultice of dried plant leaves mixed with water. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

David and Nick used salad dressing because according to them, “Plants make salad, so the plant will like salad dressing.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Polynesian subsistence depended on varying mixes of fishing, gathering wild plants and marine shellfish and Crustacea, hunting terrestrial birds and breeding seabirds, and food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When they planted the marigolds, they put a flowered border around each statue. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were working with plants and he said we didn’t have enough space for everyone to have their own. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I went out to the garden I had been neglecting—I had scarcely looked at it for ten days—and the field I had plowed but never planted. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

This whole chain of poisoning, then, seems to rest on a base of minute plants which must have been the original concentrators. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, Blue Eyes knew a lot more than the scientific classifications of plants and animals. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Especially useful contributions have been made by ecological geographers, cultural anthropologists, biologists studying plant and animal domestication, and scholars concerned with the impact of infectious diseases on history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stop and sit on the ledge that keeps all the fake plants at bay, beside his wheelchair, refusing to look at his face. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They studied photo- graphs and technical drawings of the Vemork plant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he bent down and dug up another flower, this time pulling up the entire plant, including the root. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The guerillas claimed they had planted the bomb because the pharmacy represented only “crumbs for the poor”—a mere token of assistance when in fact more substantial changes were needed. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Even the plant instructor in the Training Center made a point of telling us to avoid berries unless you were 100 percent sure they weren't toxic. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After two or three weeks of spoiled lettuces and nibbled cabbage plants, the cottager had lain in wait and shot him as he came through the potato patch at dawn. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a couple of weeks before the start of classes during the heavy plantings in the yucca field, he had a change of heart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In general the effect of all this habitation of the soil is to aerate it and improve both its drainage and the penetration of water throughout the layers of plant growth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The perilous journey into the interior, up rivers, wending mountain passes, and the dangers escaped: lions, serpents, man-killing plants, duplicitous guides. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I stop swinging and plant my feet on the ground. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Without the nitrogen-fixing bacteria, for example, plants would starve for want of nitrogen, though surrounded by a sea of nitrogen-containing air. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

While the deacons clawed at the pile of broken glass and bricks, Reverend prayed aloud that another bomb had not been planted and that God would keep them safe. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He planted his body as firmly as he could, although his heart was knocking at his Adam’s apple. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was those small living shoots she had planted, and something in Kira knew without a doubt that they would survive. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shot him one more look before steeling herself and planting her feet in the dirt. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Just a small bank of mailboxes, a fake plant, and a single wooden chair. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She went into all the details—the plants, the gleaming equipment, the chairs with their swivels and castors—and it was so vivid everyone let her talk uninterrupted for ages. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Setting worms to work at the base of the com plants. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped past the guard’s spearpoint and reached up to his face, pulling loose the half-frozen scarf to plant a kiss upon his mouth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There are potted plants in every corner of the room, TV screens positioned on the walls, cushiony chairs and couches. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In this light, the leaves of the plants shone so green they almost hurt Lina’s eyes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I never ever had something in school excite me before, but the plant unit we did with Mr. T had me fired up. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

It’s more than a figure of speech to say that plants create life out of thin air. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

How did certain wild plants get turned into crops? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The unfurling of an embryo; the reach of a plant toward sunlight; the ritual dance of bees—every biological activity required the decoding of coded instructions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“They ate everything: the plants, the houses, the stored grain. They even fastened onto the cattle and drank their milk.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been planted too close together, and she had decided to replant a few in the hopes they would flourish even this late in the season. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Of course the apples are there—a farmer planted them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

One morning one of the boys who looked after the plants saw that a great hole had been torn through the fence of thorns. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I was convinced that Frieda was right, that I had planted them too deeply. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, some of those plants were edible, and they found rabbits that made a tasty meal, and there was no shortage of water. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the jungle’s edge, I find the red-rimmed plant that could kill me with one nibble, and fill another pouch just to make it look like I’m working. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But most of the plants still to be seen were in seed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stake everything on that moment, posing for photographs while planting the flag, casting themselves in bronze. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody had ever planted these flowers, I felt sure, nor harvested them either; these were works that the Lord had gone ahead and finished on His own. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also looked at the evolution of plants. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Better to abstain from the gardens of delectable delights than to be stuck planting them, dawn to dusk. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I might be planting a bomb in here?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He’s holding a jewelry box, but instead of taking a knee, he plants his elbows on the counter and beams up at Lip Ring. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I had never thought a person could be proud of a squash plant, but I was ready to hug all of mine. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matteo Alacran, or El Patron as he soon came to be known, planted opium from the Pecos River to the Salton Sea, Matt read. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were lined with tables of plant trays under fluorescent lights. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It will rely on church bells, industrial plant whistles, and automobile horns. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every time that an animal eats a plant or another animal, the conversion of food biomass into the consumer’s biomass involves an efficiency of much less than 100 percent: typically around 10 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He talks about the plans for the house: the skylights, expanding the deck, planting flower beds of tulips and crocuses, clearing the poison oak, adding another wing, building a Japanese-style tile bathroom. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have grown them the way Namontack taught us, planting the corn and beans together in a mound, so that the bean plants can climb the cornstalks. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

There are hanging plants everywhere, and a giant fish tank sits along the wall. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

That was the product of the sugar beet plant located two miles north of town, its aroma carried easily even with a light wind. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The current gently tugged at the plants growing in the water. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Miles slid down the embankment, planted himself in front of me, and grabbed my shoulders. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t he insisted that every square inch of land be planted? Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bacteria, fungi, and algae are the principal agents of decay, reducing plant and animal residues to their component minerals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It will still be a baby compared to its mother when we arrive. They’re using the time-released nutrients to control its growth and keep it and other plants alive.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘The land’s good for trees and wildlife,’ he told Dad, ‘and maybe a few wild plants that like poor soil— and that’s about all.’ On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this kind, medicine folk would have to sing certain songs while they harvested the tobacco plants in the mountains. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

That's why I have a small amount of Earth soil and a bunch of plant seeds with me. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be only a few cobs on each plant, and the kernels would be small and deformed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, farmers selected from among individual plants on the basis not only of perceptible qualities like size and taste, but also of invisible features like seed dispersal mechanisms, germination inhibition, and reproductive biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

No cow would dare to wander into these fields and eat the plants, as the thorns at the edge would tear into her skin. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Joe and Marly went from one hump to the other, opened some to watch ants, and looked at the queer moss and starry little plants on others. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

One of my tasks for the mission was to see how plants grow here, in various combinations of Earth and Mars soil and atmosphere. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw a kitchen garden below, planted in neat squares marked off in red brick; a profusion of herbs staked out territory directly below her window. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put it right there in front of the plants, facing the sidewalk. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved through the field, the plants turning from corn to wheat to thick grasses back to corn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now the same kids were back to help me do the planting. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Gus whistled while he hoed around the tiny tomato plants, stepping carefully between the pole beans and zucchini that were just beginning to poke through the warm spring dirt. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The bridge led right to the plant, but it was patrolled by German soldiers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one remembered the name, or even the appearance, of the temporary gardener who made it his project some years back to plant up the cracks between the paving stones. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

After long and careful study, the chemists at the plant concluded that the 2,4-D had been formed spontaneously in the open basins. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But what happens to the eighty pounds of man-made nitrogen that Naylor’s corn plants don’t take up? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was so enchanted, he almost didn’t hear the servant coming down the hall, but fortunately, he woke up soon enough to scuttle behind the potted plants. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next years, as the vigorous Oenothera multiplied, de Vries found that eight hundred new variants had spontaneously arisen—plants with gigantic leaves, with hairy stems, or with odd-shaped flowers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

With small green cells called algae, these make up the microscopic plant life of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Late that summer, still bruising from his failed exam, Mendel planted a crop of peas. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was a tender plant with flowers like white stars hiding under the leaves, which were like the flower petals but green. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw my arms around Nathaniel and planted a big kiss on his cheek. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having deposited his half of the chicken with the other food, I went to the garden to hoe around the tomato plants. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t, in good conscience, just stand by and watch Rishi’s talent wither away like some poor plant in a dark basement. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Omakayas forgot the bears, forgot the whispering of the plants, became a cousin within a pack of cousins, roaming the camps, stealing bits of sugar, laughing at each other. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sown wheat yields a crop within a few months; a planted almond grows into a nut-bearing tree in three or four years; but a planted acorn may not become productive for a decade or more. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I felt everyone gather behind me as I began mixing my substances together in a bowl, but before I could feed my plant, something happened. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

We stood beneath one of the trees that I remembered the two of us planting together. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind it stretched a graveyard, with groves of trees planted among the tombstones. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A common bet-hedging adaptation by which wild plants achieve that result is to enclose their seeds in a thick coat or armor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of his life, the mules would be more or less dragging him across the field from shortly after dawn till evening, sometimes six days a week during planting season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Several landed around Vemork, with just two hitting the heavy water plant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

McCandless, I came to believe with increasing conviction, scrupulously steered clear of the reportedly toxic H. mackenzii and never ate its seeds or any other part of the plant. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we are cooking, we can walk up and take a chile or two from the living plant and toss them into the cook pot to hotten things up. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Earth used to be inhabited by plants and animals of which there is today no living trace. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bolls were swelling on the plants, performing their miraculous transformation from hard green pods into fluffy white spheres. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Baba and Ali had planted a small vegetable garden along the eastern wall: tomatoes, mint, peppers, and a row of corn that never really took. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, DuPont began work on the next stage of the manufacturing cycle: a full-scale production plant located on a bend of the Columbia River in central Washington State, near the little town of Hanford. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They were easily grown, merely by being sown or planted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She did another, but she could see that the plant wasn’t exactly straight. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

"The fuel plant can make seven hundred and eighty kilograms of fuel from that." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farming is simply the methodical harvesting of sunlight, using plants as grudging intermediaries. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I planted it in the spring,” she said. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Omakayas looked at her grandmother, remembering the time she had asked whether the plant medicines had ever spoken to her. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The boy looked at the white-haired old man leaning over like he was listening for the plant to answer him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toxic amounts of cobalt and aluminum saturated the earth, poisoning the plants. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a fig tree and told Ishmael she’d planted it more years ago than she could remember; against all odds it had taken hold and produced enormous quantities of sweet figs. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They have planted a tall cross at the mouth of the bay where we first landed and named the place Cape Henry. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Luna cried, running in circles on the stones, each of her footprints erupting in green plants and lurid flowers. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Her hands were planted on her hips, and her elbows stuck out sharply. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Its sweetness comes from the seeds at the heart of the chinchontle plant. It is a sedative more potent than any sleeping pill you can buy at a farmacia.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Instead of a lush pasture, the farmer soon has a field full of brown bald spots and plants that cows won’t touch. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

After that, ten times more zealous, I planted beans and sweet potatoes, brinjals and chillies, and they all grew well under my hand, so that we ate even better than we had done before. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the elevator door dings shut and I watch as, I swear to you, the whole plant exhales. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And before we knew where we were they were planted here and there all over the Shire, and were felling trees and digging and building themselves sheds and houses just as they liked. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Some insects or plants stung my arms, but I couldn’t see them and I couldn’t care. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Again I pinch Tram, knowing the plant will be awarded today to the teacher s pet, who is always skinny and nervous and never me. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Some are deliberately applied to bodies of water to destroy plants, insect larvae, or undesired fishes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You two grew up around me working root—laying tricks, mixing up potions and powders, picking out plants and such. But now you know there’s more to it.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Like “did a somersault in the air and then face planted into the snow” wiped out. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The little island was an ideal place to plant a garden. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over yonder were what she called her “word plants”—the wild flowers she planted because they had names she liked. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It's the first time I have felt real fear—the kind that plants a flag in your brain and decides it's going to stay. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

With careful management, she could live there for years, planting at the beginning of the rainy season and harvesting at its end. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her sweet and slow voice, she said, “This is a wonderful and useful gift. We are very, very thankful. With it, we are sure to save many plants.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Sam nodded as he gripped the pole to see if it was firmly planted. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Aside from the pumpkins and plants, the glass structure contained a generator to power the lights and the climate control. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The tree branches couldn’t still be alive, and it had to use plants that weren’t harvested for another purpose. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And he planted himself in front of me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And Crazy Martin, who had planted all barley this year. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ropy plant dug into Thomas’s flesh— his chest felt numb. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Biologically they do not belong to the type of organisms that cause disease in higher animals or in plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps plants that are sprayed with man- made pesticides don’t bother to produce much of their own. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In order to win her hand, the devil told him he had to clear an enormous field, plant corn, then harvest it, all in one day. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

That fulfills part of our definition of plant domestication, as the genetic modification of an ancestral plant in ways that make it more useful to consumers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You will see more interesting things the closer your sample is to the green river plants growing here.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

On each side of the Hearse, fields of squat, luminously green plants stretched out into a gray forever, broken up only by the occasional horse pasture, barn, or stand of trees. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The only way to make sure your plants produce the same amount of corn—that they have the same yield as the original hybrid—is to buy new seed every year from a seed company. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Her moonlace glowed silver, and the other plants responded to the magic, glowing red and yellow and blue. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sofía planted a large hand on his shoulder, and anyone could see how it must be between them in the darkness of their love-making. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She snapped a brown leaf off of a plant on the windowsill and tucked it into her pocket. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

When he had nodded and said, “Yes,” she had seemed almost disappointed, like someone else had planted their flag in Joaquin before she could get the chance. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Plant domestication may be defined as growing a plant and thereby, consciously or unconsciously, causing it to change genetically from its wild ancestor in ways making it more useful to human consumers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The painstaking work had just one aim: to plant a crop that would end up taking the life of every worker who touched it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Some of the time he leaned forward and planted his elbows in front of him. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She attacked the piano with a fervor completely different from her usual, sluggish self, and Matt liked to hide behind the potted plants to listen. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had also been planted that her job was contingent on her being able to grind coffee. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he got up from his chair one day, went down to the lakeshore, and began to plant a garden. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

So I had followed along behind them while they pointed out each little plant, telling me how the pole beans were gonna climb up the twine and the zucchini would have giant yellow flowers. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Some life-forms on earth can survive a long time under the harshest conditions: animal eggs hatch after many years and plant seeds sprout after centuries. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older plants were larger and rounder—like small cabbages—and the leaves were tinged with blue. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There isn’t a ceiling, just four columns surrounding the wooden square where several strange plants and vegetables are growing. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I called the plant young Emerson had mentioned, and it worked. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

How do you trust a therapist when even the plant in his waiting room is a lie? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He joined his mother one morning to plant rice seedlings. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She had it washed and painted, changed the furniture, restored the garden and planted new flowers, and opened doors and windows so that the dazzling light of summer would penetrate even into the bedrooms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They planted themselves in front of him so that he had to step around them, only to find them replanted in his new path. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Nothing was too insignificant for Frigg to ask, save only the mistletoe, a creeping plant that lives on other trees. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

If I really will be working in a lab, why not test the hopefully edible plants and water before we escape? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

"I mean, other than fighting the big bosses, you're basically just trying not to be eaten by the environment. Mushrooms and plants and..." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

As a result, planting these bright yellow kernels that were uniform in shape and size didn’t take long. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Their movements were influenced by the changing seasons, the annual migrations of animals and the growth cycles of plants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along one entire wall is a giant flat screen, and my dad is planted in front of this now, enormous feet on the coffee table, watching some sort of game and shouting at the television. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Despite the rain he jolted around the grounds to direct planting and sodding and every morning at dawn attended Burnham’s mandatory muster of key men. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Then she plants the first brackets around my back molars, metal rings that hug my teeth and bite into my gums. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I told them about jellyfish life cycles—that jellies start off almost like a plant, clinging to the bottom of the sea, and how in that phase of life, they are a planula. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It looked like a mix between a brussel sprout and some kind of weird star plant. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Year after year they plant corn, paint houses, fix cars or work at seasonal jobs and live off welfare in the off-seasons. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a tall plant with snakelike branches. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I decided to walk through the gate and explore the plant. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Despite what was happening at home, he insisted that all was well at the filtration plant. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Hand Clap planted his feet just as firmly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, it has a high diversity of wild plant and animal species, higher than in the comparatively tiny Mediterranean zones of southwestern Australia and Chile. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“After we start planting, there’s no time for sugaring. You plant oats early and you get oats; you plant ’em late and you get nothing but chaff.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

To fight death, the new people work hard planting rice and vegetables. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the fairies began rummaging in nearby plants. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Yet because the plant would grow only in a small coastal area in north Africa, it was only available “wild,” and there- fore worth its weight in gold. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Like the power plant manager who quelled a riot in Huntington Beach, and the mysterious good Samaritan in Tustin who saved a whole bunch of people at a nursing home, then disappeared. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Jacob had learned all the plants at a very young age. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I will collect any plant specimens that might be resistant. For the Collective,” I add. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Weeds had been kept down in this field, and the plants had been trained up stakes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They planted the abundant garden behind the house, and Anna filled 26 Markt with cut flowers. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They contained blooming jurda plants, and Nina guessed the cases must be heated. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

By Euergetes’ time, the situation was embarrassing—a spring planting festival, for instance, would actually take place in spring only once every 1,460 years. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

We follow them—especially in winter when there are few plants to eat. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many valuable wild plants yielding food prized by millions of people, such as oaks sought for their edible acorns in many parts of the world, remain untamed even today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She walks up to Darius and plants a kiss on his cheek. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mom thought about that and replied, “Maybe you’re right. Maybe this is some kind of early development. Maybe the owners of the packing plant built those houses for their workers.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, slowly and purposefully, the one with red hair knelt down and planted upon the concrete of the runway a firm, loud kiss. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve already “planted” miniature plastic palm trees in the grass, and now I’m strategically placing miniature plastic people holding miniature plastic shopping bags to give it the “vigor of life,” as Mr. Waterman would say. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In just nine years, from a base of zero, he became the leading authority on American plants. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In short, plant and animal domestication meant much more food and hence much denser human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Constantine lived about a mile from our house, in a small Negro neighborhood called Hotstack, named after the tar plant that used to operate back there. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She planted a kiss on Moss’s cheek before she bounced out of their home, the door slamming shut behind her. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When a cow eats grass, it doesn’t kill the plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I dug them up, being careful to leave their plants alive. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to a survey by Perales, 85 percent of the farmers plant the same maize landraces as their fathers, varieties that have been passed on and maintained for generations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

To control pests, one out of every seven beds is planted with flowers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I don't even have to perfectly match the hydrazine end of it with the fuel plant CO, part. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The loudly buzzing syrphid fly, often mistaken for a bee, lays its eggs on leaves of aphis-infested plants; the hatching larvae then consume immense numbers of aphids. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The whole plant is kept at thirty-six degrees. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And then I remembered my own tree, the one Gloria had helped me plant. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

For example, we need vitamin C, which is only found in plants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Floor’s dirt, swamp plants growing in it now, vines and suchlike, but nothing else. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

That provides part of the explanation why many crop plants have much bigger fruits than their wild ancestors do. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“See that ground vine with the tiny leaves? It’s a rare plant called drapeweed that flourishes in thin soil.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He works fourteen- hour shifts in the neighborhood plant's friction stoves and always comes home rubbing his eyes from the smoke. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Tell me some of the plants and animals you eat so that they will know what to do. We can make this informative.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the prospect of integration planted a new fear in the souls of Christine and fellow members of the Brown v. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She puts his framed picture on the table and plants birthday candles in the mound of maleeda. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They moved through the tall plants, so knotted up inside that they forgot to run until they were halfway through. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“But just because you have a bad season doesn’t mean you stop planting.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But humans have deliberately selected which plants and animals shall live and which shall die for thousands of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cleaning pads—part cloth and part rough plant husks—were handed out along with buckets of soapy water. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Merely to help with spring planting while their men are at war.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then a group of three chemical plant workers developed acute poisoning from exposure to other insecticides of this group. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But I'd had a double dose of the desert version—first when I'd planted it, and then again in the downpour. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We studied phototropisms by observing how our plant grew toward light after we stuffed it into a box that had only a tiny hole in its side. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She planned to plant a clump of ceanothus along the approach to the swimming pool. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My father said, “George, when we planted these trees, we only had forty acres and most of it rock.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He planted his paddle there and banked the damp earth around it so that it stood and marked the place where Evil had been vanquished. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He began to talk again, not to the boy, but to a plant that was smaller than the others. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still didn’t like the idea of hurting my plant, but I liked the idea of getting the control. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He was telling me how most people thought it was better to plant tulips in the fall and how that wasn’t true, when I came right out and said it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were three potted plants hanging from the high ceilings in the front room, and it made the house seem impossibly larger than the outside led you to believe. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We both stand there with our arms crossed, staring at the little baby plants trying to grow in the shade of the house-eating bushes. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I used to take some pictures with my camera, then bring the film to the drugstore to be sent off to a big plant somewhere for processing. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had felt concern that Sumac might try to eat the seeds as I planted them, but he sat on my right shoulder, studying all around him with curiosity. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The result is a hybrid—a disease-resistant plant that produces a lot of corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We were in her garden, planting more corn and beans that would continue to bear after the crops we’d planted in May were done. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A cow also knows there are things in the pasture to avoid, plants that will make her sick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

First we stuffed the plants in boxes, with just a little tiny hole in the side, and we waited to see what the plants would do after a few days in the dark. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

And when there was no planting, weeding, or harvesting to be done on the nearby farms, the number swelled to 260, bodies cramming the benches and overloaded desks. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We were putting out seedlings in her kitchen garden, and I nearly planted two tomatoes in the same hole together as she told me the story. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

His gaze was planted on the stretch of track, his face unreadable. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The notes on various herbs and plants seemed to be more informational than prescriptive, and there was no clear-cut recipe for a love spell or its reversal. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one ingredient, perhaps the most important of all, is planted in every life form—the factor of survival. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

This greenhouse is one of his rooms, perhaps his favorite; perhaps in better times he tended the plants himself. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Each plant population becomes genetically programmed, through natural selection, to respond appropriately to signals of the seasonal regime under which it has evolved. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wrap my arms around his neck and plant a kiss on his cheek. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The fungus cells reach far underground and so act as a second root system for the plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She’s pounding at me with her fists, but I just stand, feet planted, and take it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I politely look away, admiring the potted plants lined up along the edge of her desk. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Outside of Greenwood, the sun cast patches of light and shadows across the cotton fields revealing a thin gray mist, unstirred by morning breezes, that clung to the tops of the cotton plants. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

My mountain was still snow-capped, so I walked into the valleys almost every day to scout them for edible plants. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

True, they were ill fed and ill equipped, suffering from low morale and yearning to return home to their families and farms in time for spring planting. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Only the actual construction of a uranium separation plant was be held in abeyance without a further order from the White House. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Sam scrambling below the outfall of the lake, smelling and touching the unfamiliar plants and trees, forgetful for the moment of Mordor, was reminded suddenly of their ever-present peril. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He arranged the plants in an orderly pile. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He squatted down and began to pull the first of a thousand noxious shoots that threatened the cucumber plants so precious to Min’s wife. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She turns to see what else she can comment on, but the plant and bowls are the extent of my furnishings. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He bought her some and planted them himself. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I pushed my bladder aside and went straight for the Christmas cactus on a metal shelf with a dozen other plants. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

During this service period, city boys and girls were sent to the country to help farmers plant crops and bring in the harvest. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he meant ready to plant our seeds. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They moved the plant from Lambert, South Carolina.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Since tallness was dominant, all the parental plants in this experiment were tall to start; the recessive trait had disappeared. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Daddy had been covering his tomato plants every night, and some tomatoes could still be picked in the cool sunshine. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Beside this tiny stream, wherever enough earth collected for root-hold, colonies of plants grew, wild grape and little palms, maidenhair fern, hibiscus, and tall pampas grass with feathery rods raised above the spike leaves. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on the ledge at the front window and stared across the parking lot with her chin planted on her knees. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Your rows must be straight. Some plants must be kept apart. Otherwise neither will thrive.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He saw the good red soil and clean water flowing through it, the plants that sprang up and the animals that bounded through them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Do not proceed with other organisms until you can successfully grow the bean plant. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

By the nineteenth century, when growers turned to the richly planted islands of Hawaii, they brought with them the knowledge of how to run sugar plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sources inside the Vemork plant—Norwegian workers who fed information to the resistance network— reported that the Germans were furiously rebuilding the equipment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They killed to get property rights to vuvv resorts and locations for energy rendering plants. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Believing fundamentally in the right of a plant or a virus to rule the earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He planted a kiss on it, delicate but purposeful. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lately, my mother and father sometimes talked in low voices about the attempts to unionize the plant. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I did as he said, and even as I held out the flower, the plants around us began to recover. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

More plants bloomed along the edge of the pit—hemlock, nightshade, and oleander spreading toward Percy’s feet like a deadly carpet. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She stood upright with her feet firmly planted as if she were going to deliver a fiery speech that would change the course of the nation. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He read the plant name, and then opened and closed his mouth like he wasn’t sure what to say. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

By echoing Merle Tuve’s words, he had quite deliberately planted his flag next to that of his boyhood friend. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He dispatched an army of collectors to the shores of Lake Calumet, where they gathered twenty-seven traincar loads of iris, sedge, bulrush, and other semiaquatic plants and grasses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The ice plant did not take up much of his time, and he had a clear service record and an honorable discharge him- self. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Three. She liked to plant things. She had a talent for it. She could stick a tire in the ground and grow a car.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hold out my arms like the plant of corn. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he’d made a mistake because he was so distracted by the football suspension and opening the new preparation plant over in Caretta. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey!” she said, catching up with him and planting herself right in his way so he had to stop or run into her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The emergence of each new system of control may seem sudden, but history shows that the seeds are planted long before each new institution begins to grow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I want to tell him the seeds for those plants were meant to be cultivated on Sagan. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I planted both my feet on the bench and enjoyed my firm stand. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet all crops arose from wild plant species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” I smile back and set the already-dying plant samples in front of him. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But rather than simply planting manioc and other annual crops in their gardens until the forest took them over, they planted selected tree crops along with the manioc and managed the transition. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Seeds planted in the 1960s, forgotten by so many, sprung up from the ground and bore fruit. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In Ka’apor-managed forests, according to Balee’s plant inventories, almost half of the ecologically important species are those used by humans for food. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It makes my hands jump back, but my feet stay planted. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He tries to pick up his speech by moving on to the bombing of a water purification plant, when a clip of Finnick talking about Rue replaces him. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

By the way she’s planted her feet, and by the angry, thirsty look in her eye, he gets the feeling she’s not going to let him pass. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The pretty guide thought he was part of the class; the teacher thought that he was planted in the audience to pep up the discussion; the class knew that he was an imposter. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he said gently, “Remember. A weed is simply another plant.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Corn uses slightly different types of carbon than other plants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The range of altitudes in the Fertile Crescent meant staggered harvest seasons: plants at higher elevations produced seeds somewhat later than plants at lower elevations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So you will have blue threads,” her father went on, “while you wait for your plants to come to life.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gather more water samples and lake plants. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It may make a big difference to your particular environment if you and your group plant trees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't see any way Schindler could dismantle, move, and rebuild the entire plant. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Most New World fields thus came to be mixed gardens of many crops planted together, rather than monoculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As if she hadn’t killed all her other plants. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As a result, different plants became selected for quite different or even opposite features. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

David takes us through the compound to a carpeted area with potted plants on either side. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The differences between those trajectories were stamped by continental differences in domesticable plants and animals, germs, times of settlement, orientation of continental axes, and ecological barriers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Hillpark side was separated from the East Shoal side by the concession stand and press box planted behind home plate. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She wrenched the bat out of the thing’s grip, planted a foot behind her, and swung hard as it barreled toward her again. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

When we destroy a wild area, we may be destroying a whole species of plant or animal that is not found anywhere else. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

If the gravity were much more, plants and animals and architecture would have to be short and squat and sturdy in order not to collapse. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all very tidy and pretty in a wifely way, but she’ll have dug up her geraniums to plant tatties for the War Effort. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Dried plants, beige and fragile, hung from the ceiling rafters. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Napoleon was thrilled, and he ordered the French to begin planting thousands of acres of beets. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He shrugged slightly, as much as to imply, it seemed to me, that the picture had more or less been planted on him. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

That dwarf had already planted enough doubts in his young head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The earth explodes into showers of dirt and plant matter. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Depending on their geographic homeland, East Asian and Pacific peoples differed in their access to domesticable wild plant and animal species and in their connectedness to other peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Both of those companies refused to let me to tour their plants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the future it may become necessary to analyze soils for insecticides before planting certain food crops. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He saw the water purification plant and storehouses for food and fertilizer. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because a philodendron plant my father had given her had withered and died, despite the fact that she watered it faithfully. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eurasia and the Americas also differed with respect to plant food production, though the disparity here was less marked than for animal food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Moss stood slowly, the horror of realization spreading upward, planting itself in his chest, threatening to erupt out of his mouth. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Corcoran began to pick at the house plants and I, ears burning, was staring at my lap when a door slammed and two young men sauntered into the wide, high-raftered hall. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Insects were like death to a poultry plant, so the lights were allowed to shine on the building but no lights could be attached to it. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ultima and I worked in the garden every morning, struggling against the llano to rescue good earth in which to plant. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat down among some bristly green soap plants. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then he produced from another fold of his voluminous sash one of the cone-shaped fruits of the nelumbo plant. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Instead, fields were always tilled by hand-held sticks or hoes, and seeds were planted individually by hand and not scattered as whole handfuls. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we gather edible wild plants and bring them home, some spill en route or at our houses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My earliest memories are of being in that greenhouse with Mom, growing our little plant family, following her rules, watering and fertilizing each seed just right. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Bill and I decided that if we couldn’t catch any animals to eat, we should try for an edible plant of some sort. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At sixteen, she still insisted on having him come to her at night, sit on her bed, exchange a few pleasantries, and plant a kiss on her lips. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I placed the plant back on the ledge and went to shut off the tape recorder. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That sounds great," I said, grinning at the miraculous plant. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The story went on to say that only an angel could plant the seeds of a red fern, and that they never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s much less appetizing than a plant that creates food from sunlight. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His aunts would likely be out in the garden, whispering some kind of magic to the plants or pulling up weeds. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There were giant crystal bookcases along one wall, and like a scene out of one of Seven’s dreams, black planters with every kind of plant and flower you could think of hanging from the ceilings. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I found the plants and got them in focus. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you water a drooping and thirsty plant? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The offspring of those flowers still bloomed, alongside new ones that Emma had planted. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly, someone had planted a bomb under the house and detonated it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“We now have several people planted within the Department of Magical Transport. If Potter Apparates or uses the Floo Network, we shall know immediately.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“He can tell you everything you ever wanted to know about stars and air and plants and water and weather and all that stuff.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It has a potted plant on the stoop. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some are bare, but others are like small gardens with pots of green-leafed plants and some flowers. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The wire itself had razor-sharp protrusions as well as trip flares planted throughout. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some plants spit their seeds into the wind. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had been distracted by the squash plants. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange to see an old packing plant, to see an old anything. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man goes over and plants himself in front of Dutchy. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Someday when we owned a house, I would get my mother an azalea plant so she could start her own garden. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the one weak point in the defense system around the plant,” Ronneberg agreed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I swung my left leg in a big arc and planted it almost perpendicular to my right. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Adam was walking back from the ice plant one rainy afternoon, thinking about Sam Hamilton, when he saw Will Hamilton go into the Abbot House Bar. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

About how I know the plant is a miracle. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Human beings evolved to survive and be healthy on a diet of wild meat and plants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They cut down forests, dug canals, cleared fields, built houses, ploughed furrows, and planted fruit trees in tidy rows. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spark planted in my chest by Mrs. B and Mrs. Smith flared. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

All faces were still set on my father, as if they all were shiny, dark plants and his red head was the sun. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From sunrise to sunset, we plant crops and vegetables in the garden, stopping for only dinner and lunch. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richardson also happened to be the botanist who first wrote a scientific description of H. mackenzii and gave the plant its botanical name. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looks like the fuel plant has been completely removed, with considerable damage to the struts in the process. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She continued her everyday chores, helping with the gathering of plants, accompanying Alys to births and deaths. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The lists of plants, the many characteristics of each, the details of the dyeing procedures, so much complex knowledge; all of it was clear and complete. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dolorous Edd planted a foot on his back to keep him on his knees as Emmett shoved the block beneath his head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The pumpkin vines also took on the personality of jungle plants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every pot grew some sort of herb, flower, or other plant Babulya carefully cultivated and tended to. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Ann planted her large frame in the doorway and lit into the youths. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Mora planted his hands on the counter behind the window. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I now have four hundred healthy potato plants, each one making lots of calorie-filled taters for my dining enjoyment. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of farmers, along with their plants and animals, clustered together in an area of just 4.25 million square miles—2 per cent of the planet’s surface. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet we were all subject to the same weather and pests, the same neighborhood, and the same parental emotions toward our plants. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slept through the winter, the way plants hibernate. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The grass around the grave behind Gram’s—the one belonging to Isabella Fortune, Gram’s teacher who died really young—has been tidied up recently, and someone’s planted a little rosebush by it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But whether or not the selection of wild edible plants by ancient hikers relied on conscious or unconscious criteria, the resulting evolution of wild plants into crops was at first an unconscious process. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I removed my now useless mask, planted my ice ax into the mountain’s frozen hide, and hunkered on the ridge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Zach said the farmers had planted and harvested their cotton early this year because of the boll weevil. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rode past a banner planted in the mud, one of Stannis's fiery hearts, and chopped the .staff:in two with a swing of his axe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The trees and plants also change greatly as you descend the Grand Canyon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I have some cuttings from my garden I can help you plant.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I planted 'em right there in front of her eyes, to show her I hadn't, that I was waiting for her. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite Haymitch's order to appear mediocre, Peeta excels in hand-to-hand combat, and I sweep the edible plants test without blinking an eye. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He planted his crutch tips in a deliberate show. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The importation of plants is the primary agent in the modern spread of species, for animals have almost invariably gone along with the plants, quarantine being a comparatively recent and not completely effective innovation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you sit tight and let me take you?” she says, planting both hands firmly on the arms of my chair. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It assumes the existence of a nuclear fusion reactor— something much safer as well as more efficient than existing fission power plants. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some are seeds that are planted when you are born, placed there by your father and mother and their ancestors before them. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were thus in a position for several thousand years to exploit as potential crops the most useful available wild plants, whatever those should be. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, as far as plant and animal domestication was concerned, the head start and high diversity lay with Eurasia, not with Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The electromagnetic separation plant was the largest and most complicated installation in the valley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I had thought of that. And on the back porch, too, where I can see the planting.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He tries to plant his hands beside him and push himself upward, but the action only drags him farther down. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

"If you give me some grain,” he said to his friend, "then I shall be able to plant it in a small field that I have.” The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She took an active interest, for example, in Nick’s flower garden, often eating the heads off the daffodils and hydrangeas, also off the lilacs and roses when those plants bloomed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even tried working with plants—peas, of all things—to understand the basis of hereditary instructions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He teaches in the one classroom with a platform so that he can stand above us and threaten us with his ash plant and peel his apple for all to see. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The plants have grown in these last few weeks and they have bloomed. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

These foragers talked about the plants and animals and fungi they had seen and met. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As North Vietnamese attacks in South Vietnam intensified, Johnson decided to run a continuous bombing campaign over North Vietnam aimed at destroying railroads, bridges, roads, and manufacturing plants. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the hard-packed dirt she sat as if planted there, in front of a little fire that licked at her dented cooking can. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was on the stoop with Chris trying to explain this crazy plant. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Behind him lay the parking lot, a vast open space where occasional clumps of planted bushes spread long shadows over the ground. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She harvested all her plants from the little island—leaves, seeds, and roots—leaving nothing to replant in the rainy season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was so crowded with filing cabinets and plants and her big desk, there was room only for two straight chairs for visitors. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey. Wait up. I’m sorry. Okay? I didn’t really think that you were planting a bomb.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You remember when I planted those strawberries a few years back? You must been about Jojo’s age.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The plants withered to dust and blew away. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This is the only plant in Grace’s house, and we aren’t allowed to touch it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In some of the weapons associated with the animals, images of plants have recently been recognized. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the polis beat every plant in sight and shout, I crouch with the guy who called for me to follow. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lysa's apartments opened over a small garden, a circle of dirt and grass planted with blue flowers and ringed on all sides by tall white towers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Before the boy could answer, the teacher began to talk about the plant he must remember to water. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the next time the ball came at me, I planted myself right under it, locked my elbows and bumped it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to kill my plant,” I blurted out. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The plants around the room swayed gently from side to side. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He sees the Quit Man slowly plant a huge movie-star kiss on her lips and then put her down, laughing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There we discovered pitcher-plant bogs where we’d hike up our dresses, sink on our knees in the rich black muck, and stare carnivory right in the lips, feeding spiders to the pitcher plants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly hoping to contain her tenuous hair situation, she plants one hand on her head as she crosses to the ball that contains the boys' names and grabs the first slip she encounters. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the garden, by the moon’s fight, I soon found the plant I sought. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There I must plant my oar, on the very spot, with burnt offerings to Poseidon of the Waters: a ram, a bull, a great buck boar. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Banana and coconut trees laden with fake fruit and hibiscus plants with fake flowers are everywhere. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when Daddy let me go into town with him one Saturday to get supplies for our planting, we passed a building with a sign above the door that said LIBRARY. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The young king did not disagree and planted the seed with great care in a pot. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I stare at everything I might never see again: the dangling plants, the crocheted doilies, the cross-stitched roses that I know so well. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They planted their crops and toiled in the fields. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

See, too, that Mr. Hennessey down the road planted his soybean field.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But how could I do this to Earth Mother, especially during planting season? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“I know a man who works in the munitions plant,” Uncle Moshe whispered. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They planted a bomb that killed innocent people to make a political point,” he said. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

At the sound of his footsteps, household pets scattered and plants withered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Villagers had planted new mangrove plants to replace the bushes and trees torn away by the cyclone, and new roots were beginning to push through the salty soil. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Still, our list of triumphs lacks many wild plants that, despite their value as food, we never succeeded in domesticating. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Next week, all of us are going to Eagle’s Ridge to plant new trees. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Gold’s former employer, a chemical plant called the Pennsylvania Sugar Company, was hiring again. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each plant and animal plays its part and Joel Salatin is the choreographer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In fact, I was looking out over the lawn to where the mist was thickening down around the poplar trees planted along the cart-track, when I finally introduced the topic of the previous year's dismissals. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or had he paid to have them transported and planted? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Why did the same plant package launch food production throughout western Eurasia? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some plants got their names from leaves, some from flowers, some from seeds, some from roots. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the Americas, the most important plant the Indigenous peoples grew was maize, or corn. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She inhabits her world, waiting for forgiveness, while her children are planted in or upon the four different nations that have claimed us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to this availability of suitable wild mammals and plants, early peoples of the Fertile Crescent could quickly assemble a potent and balanced biological package for intensive food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In one, about fifty young children squat in a row, pulling weeds and planting vegetables. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small patch of land in the monastery garden produced an overwhelming volume of data to analyze—twenty-eight thousand plants, forty thousand flowers, and nearly four hundred thousand seeds. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Across the highway, behind the bar at Cerritos, there was a big corn field, but the plants were short and thin, and their leaves were faded yellow like the grasshoppers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, the largest domestic mammals interacted with domestic plants to increase food production by pulling plows and thereby making it possible for people to till land that had previously been uneconomical for farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We planted a garden, so we had fresh vegetables to eat, including cabbage, something I had never eaten before. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word is a symbol and a delight which sucks up men and scenes, trees, plants, factories, and Pekinese. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He now had a plantation; inside of two years he had dragged house and gardens out of virgin swamp, and plowed and planted his land with seed cotton which General Compson loaned him. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled out the dead plants and replaced them with new ones. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

His father, who worked at a natural gas plant for Gulf as a shift supervisor, had not gone to the game that day. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to the corral and marked the animals and plants: cow, goat, pig, hen, cassava, caladium, banana. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

All the other predators are animals; this is the only plant. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And perhaps not too many people buy plants for Christmas, because the store was quiet and nearly empty. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We’ve thus seen that the difference between gigantic supermarket strawberries and tiny wild ones is just one example of the various features distinguishing cultivated plants from their wild ancestors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We know that many important drugs used to cure human diseases come from plants or even from insects. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maria had decided that insects belonged to plants and plants to insects. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“The little groups that hitherto had stood rooted to the earth like desert plants broke into dance.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I cannot stand idly by while she suffers. I have some skill with plants and potions. Let me administer a medicine that might restore balance to her mind,” I plead. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Think of the electricity bill to refrigerate a 200,000-square-foot plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Butler planted his foot just above the creature’s haunches and tugged the weapon free. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The rubber plant will be on the landing, not much bigger. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Workmen trampled his plantings and destroyed his roads. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Here, there’s so much dirt that you could probably plant fifty bean seeds and no one would even notice. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine what it would be like if I were Ee Gee, the famous editor, in an office full of potted rubber plants and African violets my secretary had to water each morning. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I want her to plant it back where she found it. ’Tis best they believe their plan is still secret. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s the part that holds a tiny embryo of a corn plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When inextricably mixed with domestic and other wastes discharged into the same water, these chemicals sometimes defy detection by the methods in ordinary use by purification plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“What grows on it?” the boy asked, thinking it must be something good to eat if somebody cared that much about a plant. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If plants made sounds, it would all be different. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Odinchezo broke off a large leaf from the ede plant and gave it to her to use as a makeshift umbrella. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Why did Maria insist on painting her insects with the plants they favored? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Planet Earth was separated into several distinct ecosystems, each made up of a unique assembly of animals and plants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had trouble reaching the cotton bolls at the very top of the tall plants, so I leaned against the plants and pushed them over with my body until they touched the ground. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I pull at Mama’s arm until she bends low enough so I can plant a kiss on her cheek. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Nina crossed her legs and planted her chin in her hands. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When I visited a Gore associate named Bob Hen, at one of the company’s plants in Delaware, I tried, unsuccessfully, to get him to tell me what his position was. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must come here each day. You must learn all the plants. Look—” The woman gestured at the garden plot, thick with thriving plants, many in summer-start bloom. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I was blind trying to do things my way, planting books in firemen's houses and sending in alarms.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he was taken with the hedges, plants, and flowers, including the purple magnolias up against the house. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can thus be sure that it was indeed possible to develop the wild plant into a useful crop, and we have to ask why that wild species was not domesticated in certain areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Soon I grew tired of walking and planting and started dumping beans by the handful, quickly covering them with dirt so Mamita couldn’t see. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve actually got a big plant down in San Diego, but it’s not going to help us.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I knocked the snow from my shoes then planted myself in front of the desk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Working in the yard is Ralph’s favorite activity; he likes to weed, to plant, to cultivate. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Nick planted himself in front of me, a distinctly unpleasant smile on his face. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

In season, they fed on acorns, berries, wild plums, prickly-pear apples, grass, weeds, and bulb plants which they rooted out of the ground. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the train started slowing people were falling out of the cars like potato bugs on a spring plant. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel the Sleer winding its waves of fear around him, like the tendrils of some carnivorous plant. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He should have brought something to give them, and he had not thought of it, and every plant in the graveyard was leafless and frozen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

For the first time in history, a taste native to the tropics was exactly matched by a plant grown in a colder area. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

To obtain fuel and construction material and to grow food, they cleared trees and vegetation from the bluffs to the east and planted every inch of arable land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Someone else planted a bomb in her car but it went off too early. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees and brush had overgrown the path down to the T-shaped wooden dock, and where there weren’t plants in my way, there was a rope, along with a sign that warned DO NOT ENTER. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It held a number of small plants, all of them the same kind, with stringy roots and dark, veined green leaves that looked like mint. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bulldozers went in the next day, and now the place looks like a farmer’s field ready for planting. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

By around 8500 BCE, societies in all seven areas of settlement were domesticating and cultivating plants. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Splitting wood for her, hauling water, planting a garden. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And in many alkaloid-producing species, moreover, the toxin is strictly localized within the plant. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept a potted plant in one corner and a folding table where students could fill out music work sheets in the other. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He salutes the commander and shouts, At noon today the Communists crashed their tanks through the gates of the presidential palace and planted on the roof a flag with one huge star. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

People devoured the samosas, and dutifully admired the freshly painted ceilings and walls, the hanging plants, the bay windows, the silk paintings from Jaipur. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

From studying technical drawings of the plant, he knew he had about thirty yards to go. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What makes you so sure? Look, Charles, things grow so fast in California they say you have to plant and step back quick or you’ll get knocked down.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still, every morning he insisted on being lifted from his bed and wheeled to his study, deposited there among his books and papers and the hibiscus plant on the windowsill. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flinch back, not sure why he used every last sample of the deadliest plant in galaxy history to test an herbicide. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There, planted in his garden, was that bicycle. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The carving on the steel had the pearly gleam of a Damascus blade, while the stock flowed into lock and lock into barrels as though they had grown that way from a magic planted seed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when there was still no plant growing in the pot a month before the Moon Festival, the father confronted his son on his nightly stroll through the garden. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They are employees of multinational industry: pharmaceutical salespeople, electronic engineers, information technology managers, accountants, data analysts, plant managers, regional vice presidents, biotechnologists, bankers, manufacturers’ representatives, and franchise chain managers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And it was disturbing to see—among the established plantings—the raw brown earth like a wound in the ground. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven handed her the plant, a fully grown opal-haworthia, which she was now an expert in growing. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Every year for the Air and Water Show, we packed a picnic and drove north along Lake Michigan to the fenced-off peninsula where my father’s water filtration plant was located. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I just didn’t see how we could have a world in which people ate only plants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A month later, huge, chaotic clumps of plants sprouted from the holes where I’d thrown handfuls of beans. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mom kept looking at him, he finally said, his eyes still firmly planted on the funnies, “This is man’s work, Elsie.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him and learned from him, digging and planting and making things grow. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got home, I saw Abuela outside, carefully tending to her plants in the courtyard. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I planted the dried sprig of moonlace carefully in the dirt and sprinkled a little nectar on it from my camp canteen. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I sat down, and listed some of the better wild plants and the more easily obtainable mammals and fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In November, when it came time to buy seed and fertilizer to plant new maize and tobacco, plus hire a new crew of workers, little of the money was left. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Neatly trimmed boxwood hedges created a path lined with young betony plants, lavender, day lilies, and honeysuckle. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Should she plant these new flowers in the petunia bed, to the left of the front door? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He planted them in the dirt, twelve in all. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It disturbed him that the plants thrived and filled the fenced patch with bloom like a funeral parlor, but would not set fruit. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Corinthians moved close to him, tilted his chin up with her fingers, and planted a feathery kiss on his throat. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But something’s smoldering down there. The marker stakes I planted are gone, but I think that’s the direction we saw the blue fire last night.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I certainly felt thankful to be eating those plants, animals, and fungi. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The piping systems are all buried except one, which runs along the ground to send water to the power plant, near the fence. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

During his recuperation Olmsted ordered bulbs and plants for cultivation in two large nurseries established on the fairgrounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There is nowhere to sit that doesn’t seem crawling with plants. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I thought of how she planted her body between us and her kitchen door, daring us to take a step farther. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one would ever find me there, either, behind all those roses, and just to make sure I would plant oleanders by the road. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Odd dried plants and flowers hung from the ceiling, and the walls were covered with pictures of Inti and Mama Killa, as well as of the stars, the rainbow, and Illapa, the thunder god. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

At a place where the undergrowth ended and the papyrus began—the water’s edge in winter, now a stretch of mud—he stopped beside a spreading patch of some low, green plant. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It had been an extremely boring plant, but I did remember it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The room is lit by moonlight, so it is hard to distinguish plant from tree from man-made structure. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Once filled, the trucks deliver their cargo of leaves to a processing plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Put simply, Mendel’s question was this: If he crossed a tall plant with a short one, would there be a plant of intermediate size? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Hence early farmers either had to find mutant trees not requiring cross-pollination, or had consciously to plant genetically different varieties or else male and female individuals nearby in the same orchard. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The plant, known to botanists as Hedysarum alpinum, grows in gravelly soil throughout the region. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It even had some of the same plants. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stabbed the ground and swung over it, stabbed and swung, until he planted himself in the doorway of Vola’s barn again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

On July 14, he began consuming the pealike seedpods of the plant as well, probably because the roots were becoming too tough to eat. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were young strawberries growing on the plants around him and their fragrance filled up the night. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’d plant one big shoe on a shoulder and the other on another. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mags hauls herself up, plants a kiss on Finnick's lips, and then hobbles straight into the fog. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The herd searched the forest for the hunter’s magic plant and destroyed every single one of them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And now all of those plants are blooming again, and they’re reaching up to the sun, and suddenly the school year is over. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the damp box of the old kennel, the sound of the sea washes away all other sounds; she tends to the snails as though to plants in a garden. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Soon they could hear the low, steady hum of machinery—the Vemork plant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below him there was a planted field, rows of low green bush, rolling toward a creek, broken by one low rail fence and a few thick clumps of trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shut up. You never cared about the plant before,” I said. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“Botany? As in plants? What are you going to be, a potato farmer?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

After the harrow, for the next two days came the Fitzgibbons themselves, all four of them with hoes and bags of seeds, planting lettuce, beans, spinach, potatoes, corn and mustard greens. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

When leaves or branches fall, the carbon and nitrogen in the debris are rapidly reabsorbed by the hyperefficient root systems of tropical plants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Like them, even, to plant the passport forgers themselves, a net for the unwary. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nightshade plant is related to the potato, which accounts for the similar shape of the flowers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her breathing was still heavy as she motioned toward the plants in my hand. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

So she took the plants and grass from them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hear him explain: "It's all going to be planted. You'll see. We are right in the middle of the project." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“And just how did you ‘plant’ this suggestion?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But the germination, growth, and disease resistance of plants are adapted to precisely those features of climate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had to step off to the side quickly because the plants sprang back like a bow, whipping me in the face if I did not move fast enough. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had planted them too far down in the earth. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hallway is cramped with a coatrack and plants and shoes all jumbled at the door. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Since these two plants were among the first eight crops of the Fertile Crescent, they were presumably among the most readily domesticated of all wild plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later a botanist and member of the Florida Native Plant Society spoke to us about why native plants are so important. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Each day after this, I visit the plant, bringing it water in a little bowl. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the same way, the early unconscious stages of crop evolution from wild plants consisted of plants evolving in ways that attracted humans to eat and disperse their fruit without yet intentionally growing them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I told her about some of my plants and gave a simple explanation of a few of my backyard botanical experiments. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Every scrap of arable land had been terraced and planted with barley, bitter buckwheat, or potatoes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The plants grew in the soil and the sea, the beasts ran on the land and swam in the sea, but the men did not wake. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was made from a certain plant that grew only on the islands of the Jade Sea, half a world away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Half a day. I can plant some this afternoon. Maybe all of it.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

That seeming detail of plant geography had enormous implications for politics today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The plant that poisoned him wasn’t toxic, per se; McCandless simply had the misfortune to eat moldy seeds. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the backyard, he planted strawberries with Theresa, it was true; also he grilled fish with her, and argued. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mycorrhizal fungus has cells that surround or even go into the roots of a plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It’s nice to have friends, and besides I wanted a little time to think about the things I’d seen, the huge factories and plants and the scurry and production. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom handed me the other flower to plant. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Henry Reid advised employees to stay on the lookout for spies disguised as Langley Field soldiers and warned of fifth column plants who might coax valuable research from unwitting laboratory employees. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I knew because she was my plant partner, and she helped me a lot during that unit. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I assumed that we could keep walking, but her feet were planted on the sidewalk. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

"You laid down your arms to grow plant and flower. Begone, Gilgamesh, for you have no power!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She knew about plants and flowers, at least as much as she craved to know. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the way, he showed me a plant called poison oak that makes you itch all over if you touch it, and told me to keep an eye out for snakes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

There was a big, 3-D model of the mountain that you could walk all the way around, and exhibits about the plants and animals that lived there, and information about history and climbing routes. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She simply wanted to capture these small communities of insects and plants interacting with one another, just as she had witnessed them. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She plants her hands on her knees and stares right at me, her features taut with sudden ferocity. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Even though the plant was inches from the tap, the soil was so dry that he had to water it first before the candles would stand straight. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She finished packing paid some bills, ate a few Oreos, and watered the plants. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him swing his scraggy leg in a sweeping arc, watched his whole body tilt impossibly to the right every time he planted that foot. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And when planting season started, Dad would be out in the fields all day, and Luke could see Jen all the time. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Farmers planted even more, corn prices began falling, and, with a few interruptions, they have been falling ever since. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

My Notebook progressed nicely, each page filled with many Questions, an occasional Answer, and clumsy illustrations of various plants and animals. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

At Down, he and Charles worked together studying the movement of plants in relation to light and gravity. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laundry and administration buildings followed shortly, then the school building and a new power plant. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They learned to grow plants Indigenous peoples had domesticated, such as corn, squash, and tobacco. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

They ignored the garden island and anyhow, to be on the safe side, Nhamo had planted everything out of reach. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another possibility is that the rocks there contain fossils of extinct animals and plants. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next few days she planted mealies, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, peanuts, okra, and pieces of yam. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five or six large test prints were tacked up, each one showing the industrial landscape of a chemical plant. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some kind of tree planted in a rusty bucket by the window. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

That first day, Kaztauskis walked to the entrance of one of the meatpacking plants, joining a crowd of about two hundred hungry-looking men standing outside for the morning “shape-up.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He showed them where they should plant the bombs to blow up railroads, such as tunnels, bridges, switches, and brakes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Figures of animals and plants, almost a thousand geometric symbols, arrow-straight lines many miles long—what were they for? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They took up work in the stockyards, steel mills, and other industrial plants, accomplishing what they had been recruited to do. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Steeling his nerves, he tapped his spear against the stone ground, then planted his left foot on the very edge of the Cliff and jumped, catapulting up and into the twilight air. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

On his chest, rising and falling with the deep, regular breaths of a solid sleeper, lay a thick book about tropical plant life that he’d taken from a shelf. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kira tended his grave now, taking the babies with her while she weeded and watered the soft blanket of fragrant purple thyme she had planted there. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s funny how quickly you can tell who’s there for you and who’s just trying to plant some sort of flag. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was the peak of the planting season, and the nights spent on the hard ground took their toll of men whose endurance was needed for the hard daily work in the fields. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to plant his feet at the threshold, but it only lasted for a split second; the pole sent him into the Maze with a lurch. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

On either side of the crossroads, two dark metal torch-stands erupted from the dirt like plant stalks. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That is because there is a big new plant in the city. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Instead, we have seen that the many distinctive features of the Fertile Crescent’s climate, environment, wild plants, and animals together provide a convincing explanation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then I sensed God planting in me a vision for my future. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It must plant foods that can survive shipment across the country. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They crossed the meadow whose soil was too thin for planting and entered the swamp. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Back in California, Papa had asked their landlord if he could plant a pine in the backyard. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Gabe knew—all village children had been taught—which berries, which plants, were lethal. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

One group of men dragged a cannon from the town hall and trained it on Hygeia’s bottling plant. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I try to run, but my feet are firmly planted and refuse to move, like the crow on my shoulder. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

That same day, they came to a long row of trees planted on either side of the path. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He’d talk sports with my dad as he headed out for a shift at the water plant. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She pointed again, and Kira saw a sprawling, weedy plant in a raised bed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When that doesn’t work, they accept it, along with their usual plastic plants and little castle. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shuffled his body to the right as far as the plant would let him, then let go and grabbed another one. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Calder followed him onto the front walk, noticing with interest all the papers that had collected under the dead plants in their yard. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Surely I betrayed my alarm, though I struggled to hide it Because I had given Hamlet no cause to think me false, someone else must have planted the rumor that made him doubt me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I holler again, my hands planted on the concrete. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I looked at the name of the plant and tried to pronounce it in my head. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In each spot where a tooth had been planted, a creature was struggling out of the dirt. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

According to her, if a plant was in decent soil and had sun and enough water, a bud would at some point show up. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I’d heard too many times how if they couldn’t find any evidence, they would plant some, where you would never find it, then they’d come back in and “find” it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soil was in the room, too: The elegant table was covered with dozens of little canvas sacks filled with seedlings, and Sarai wondered how plants figured into the Godslayer’s plans to conquer the citadel. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Klein had been ready for the spring planting by the Amish. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They managed the landscape by burning it, to encourage the growth of edible seed plants that sprout after fires. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He spent his money on herbs and plant roots and oils to make things like ointments for burns and cuts. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The moustache hung over his mouth like the roots of some plant. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

People get seventy years, a bean plant gets four months, maybe five. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with Hen Wen at his heels, he quickly set out to search for the plants. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to offend Pachamama, and if she felt I wasn’t worthy to plant, then I would not have done so again. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She reached into a flour sack by her feet and brought out bundles of freshly gathered plants. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was labor she recognized, she understood the elemental rhythms of planting and harvest, the lessons and imperatives of the shifting seasons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Animals sat on some of these initial letters, plants twined around others, one F burned bright as fire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When man finally decides to live in space, I expect that he will do exactly what Tsiolkovsky recommended, and use plants to produce oxygen for the crew to breathe. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “It is a mixture of aca and koka and other sacred plants. Drinking it will begin your journey as a shaman priestess.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Yet most of that huge variety comes from one single plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

These are chemicals with extraordinary properties which are used to convert plants or animals into a sort of Medea’s robe by making them actually poisonous. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Celia planted herself at the table and watched as he mechanically chewed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had given away everything in their little house except a package of garden seed that Tea Cake had bought to plant. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

There was a massive stone wall with a doorway in it, and in the farther part of the garden, the trees were younger and the planting less formal. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She showed me where she wanted everything planted, and the day she stood there, pointing around at her garden, was the first time she seemed just a little bit better. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Corn is now one of the most successful plants on earth. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Do you see why anything we plant will not bear fruit?” said a woman whose child had died the week before. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m sure that if he were planted down in the middle of the desert, in half an hour he would have gathered together a supper of roast meat, dates, and wine. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a long period of comfortable silence I stopped to look at a plant. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The blue silk shawl was spread open by her feet, and she had filled it with freshly dug roots and leaves from many different plants. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on the edge of a sandy bank beside a big moonflower plant. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lest these conclusions be misinterpreted, we should end this chapter with caveats against exaggerating two points: peoples’ readiness to accept better crops and livestock, and the constraints imposed by locally available wild plants and animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That way the bean vines could wrap around the corn plants like necklaces and dangle their pods like earrings. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall of the waiting room was covered with burlap, and there were plants in wooden tubs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been planted on the front lawn of the high school, between the road and the bus lanes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the day wears on and the new plants get nestled into earth, her whole being seems to change. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Without fungi to break things down, the earth would soon be covered with a blanket of dead plants and animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On the car ride, the three of us sat in the backseat: Jessica held her book, Anna held her plant, and I held my special sketch. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She reached out in the dark and felt plants all around her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma planted her big fists on her big hips, and her jaw clenched in a familiar way. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She planted a kiss on her palm and pressed it to the wall. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

More than that, he was planting tobacco, and a long new tobacco barn stood impressively behind the house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Farmers had more possessions and needed land for planting. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In May, the company announced that its big new coal-preparation plant in Caretta was complete, and all the coal from both the Coalwood and Caretta mines would henceforth be loaded into coal cars over there. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then they all worked together, pushing or pulling weeds away from the tomato plants. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands were now planted firmly on her hips and there was a look on her face which seemed to say, ‘I want no part of this fiasco.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colin wraps his arm around Charlise’s neck, pulls her in, and plants a big fat kiss on her forehead, just as a well-dressed couple walks in. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

"Every plant here has medicinal properties. Somewhere in the Amazon forest there's a plant that will cure cancer." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Once the grounds were fertilized, it was time for the plants. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At about the same time, though, another group of late domesticates arose with much less effort, as wild plants that established themselves initially as weeds in fields of intentionally cultivated crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not to mention, the traditional seeds had been planted in a different pattern, and that may have influenced water distribution and pollination. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The hands that had been planted on her hips were now fanning her face. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They might have planted some when they came for their raid...or someone could have planted some since then. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

"We're doing this for Willow. Don't be a jerk. She wants us to plant three seeds." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Within its walls she planted an easy, accessible target for his insane anger. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the plants she had were rare and impossible to find anywhere in Kievan Rus’. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

How Old Toby came by the plant is not recorded, for to his dying day he would not tell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then she transplanted clumps of wildflowers and clovers and berries and shrubs and herbs until the Nest was surrounded by a scraggly collection of plants. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you planted yourself in that old lady’s house like some fungus mold till you got a picture out of her.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

They intended to travel in March to a state-owned farm to plant potatoes, a job that provided regular meals. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It makes sense, then, that the construction of small and mediumsized hydroelectric plants—capable of serving local industry and built mostly by hand, using basic technology—has been a priority since the 1990s. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Great shamans connect to Beyond through their power. They may use magical plants to help them, or journey unassisted.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“No. No. Hunter has a job at the rendering plant. That’s why we’re here. It’s completely different from a triplex gathering hole. Totally.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I enter the garden and find a corner behind a tree, away from the spot where community gardeners have been planting fruit trees and flowers and making the world glow a little more. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, Voyager relies on a small nuclear power plant, drawing hundreds of watts from the radioactive decay of a pellet of plutonium. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not like we were about to skip into school, carrying the plants and singing songs. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Manchee, who don’t seem to ever get tired, is busy running around, lifting his leg on all the plants that have grown up thru the cracked floorboards. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were plants like green rubber roses in clay pots, but they weren’t rubber. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

We lugged it all across the road and up to the Wabash Railroad right-of-way and planted the card table in the gravel. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the least, we can say that China was one of the world’s first centers of plant and animal domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and I had visited it so many times together that the way to the plants was mapped onto my heart. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the Pearl River Delta, the rice farmer planted two and sometimes three crops a year. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

To be on the safe side, she ought to plant her uncooked pumpkin and mealie seeds. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he charged at me, I planted my feet and looked him in the eye. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The roots of the meeting had been planted more than two years earlier by the discovery of nuclear fission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

All the observations he made—on himself, his children, the animals and plants around him—were in service to his theory of natural selection. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In no time at all she ran across the field and planted herself in front of the tractor to keep me from going forward. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The mourning regiment planted a little birch tree for the three young women over their grave. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The plants used the sun’s energy to make food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But every reader addicted to coffee can thank ancient Ethiopian farmers for domesticating the coffee plant. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many such plants around Atlanta ran twenty-four hours a day, and many refugees, starting out at the bottom, ended up taking jobs on the night shift. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Lee steps forward and plants a kiss on my forehead. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

If they were still on the body of Tartarus, Percy figured they must be on the bottom of his foot—a rough, calloused expanse where only the most disgusting plant life grew. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When the plants were watered, she sat alone, knees to chin, and rocked herself back and forth as the sun began to rise, a faint pink stain creeping up the eastern rim of the sky. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like me, she's clever with plants, climbs swiftly, and has good aim. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In half an hour they were back at the crossroads, the ships planted, all of them out of the ships. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been over a month since we planted the iris, and we still didn’t speak much. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She handed me a plant, which had a clump of dirt and roots at the base. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The shelves are lined with apothecary bottles that twinkle like jewels, as well as clear jars and magnificent flasks containing resins, balms, waxes, and oils made from flowers, plant secretions, and extracts. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Singer had planted a troubling notion, one that stuck in my mind. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"He even had a certificate from the Department of Agriculture for importing and exporting plants and seeds." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His Huntington Beach plant produces 450 megawatts of power, which is enough to power nearly half a million homes. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Turning over on my back, I was just in time to see the big marshal plant a number-twelve boot in the seat of the last kid. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lines on the pages were planted with words that opened up like rows of flowers, each with a different shape. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In a fit of panic, de Vries rushed his paper on plant hybrids to print in March 1900, pointedly neglecting any mention of Mendel’s prior work. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Bean plants? He thought Levy Pants was a truck garden?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chloroplasts in all plants are, similarly, independent and self-replicating lodgers, with their own DNA and RNA and ribosomes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these plants and animals and fungi were being sacrificed to our needs and desires. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I work my way down at a diagonal, but I find nothing except more lush, green plant life. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As Nichols understood, once the plant entered the production phase, what was needed was unquestioning operation, not ceaseless tweaking. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Some insecticides affect sensitive plants such as beans, wheat, barley, or rye, retarding root development or depressing growth of seedlings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I saw no houses or street lights, either, just a potato-processing plant that was bigger than many towns—the giant Simplot complex—and seemed to extend for miles. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First you plant flax, then the wheat. Karl says maybe end of April.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

His feet seemed planted on this wooden floor; they did not wish to carry him one step further. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In San Juan, New Mexico, in 1991, a pipe at a power plant burst. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Conveniently, one plant hangs just inside the doorway, its vines trailing all around the room. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week, in his home, by a window in his study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink flowers. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Q. R Colvin, planted in his chair on King Hill, stayed close to his shotgun. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Every pass across this field, which is almost perfectly flat, represents another acre of corn planted. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The adult lacewing feeds mostly on plant nectars and the honeydew of aphids, and in time she lays her eggs, each on the end of a long stalk which she fastens to a leaf. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He said Down below Three worlds below this one everything is green all the plants are growing the flowers are blooming. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It felt as though he was sitting on some sort of plant. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

From this window you looked over the roof of the porch, over the back yard, over the planted fields, over the long stretch of marshes—to the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must plant one or two crop varieties that ripen at the same time. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Since there was no need for legumes to fix nitrogen, farmers could plant corn in every field, every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Mendel had switched to plants and moved the experiments to the hothouse outside. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And the animals that would return if the plants returned. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In his village, people farmed the tiniest plots outside their homes and planted useful vegetables and herbs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Taran saw Gurgi’s leg was much worse, and he left the campsite to search the woods for healing plants, glad that Coll had taught him the properties of herbs. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Each breath I took was soured by the scorched, sickly sweet odor of the glue processing plants, while the canal, polluted with animal carcasses from the slaughterhouses, reeked of ghastly carnage. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The opal-haworthia had been the most elusive of Seven’s plant projects. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But on the fifth day he did two surprising things, one connected with the plowing and planting, the other not. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He gripped the plant just enough to slow him down as he slid to the ground, ignoring the horrible burn. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Should they show the plant at a moment in time, or show both flower and fruit in a single illustration? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Using your powers to manipulate fabric and plants pushes the arcana outside of its intended use. It weakens it." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The mud and plants seem to have imprisoned him and I finally have to give a gigantic tug to break him from their clutches. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It was in one of your books—you know, growing plants indoors, without soil, just using water and special minerals.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I planted myself in a seat in her office, crossed my arms, lined my eyes up with a crack in the wall, and braced for the inquisition. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was a very nice, well-tended garden, but the widow clearly didn’t have plant magic. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Before Dad could stop me, I sprinted into our greenhouse, took the eggs out of the carton, one by one, and slammed them into the dead plants. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now that my eyes have adjusted to the light, I can see that the plants in this room were selected for beauty, not practicality—flowers and ivy and clusters of purple or red leaves. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer’s solution was to plant a false, but believable, story about what was happening at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The covering party, commanded by Knut Haukelid, led the way to a storage shed 500 yards from the plant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don't plant beans till the weather's hot. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Each one of you is to plant and care for your seed as if it were your kingdom," said the emperor. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was almost like God forgot to plant trees in this one small, circular section—the forest’s bald spot. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Every plant inherited one copy from each parent—one allele from father, via sperm, and one from mother, via the egg. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Gritting my teeth with determination, I bend over to plant the rice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna wondered where she got it; the plants and trees around were scorched, blown bare by the dusty winds. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Especially prized were those plants that were from the mountains. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the Lords of the Eyrie planted grass and scattered statuary amidst low, flowering shrubs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I give the plant some water and whisper it an apology. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The richest acre of Iowa soil could never feed thirty thousand hungry corn plants year after year without added fertilizer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In a forest, or wood—any kind of natural area—all the different kinds of plants and animals make up a whole, wonderful, complex pattern. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

But they exerted their right to come, and I have many, many times reflected upon how, talking to us children, they began to plant the seeds of division in our minds. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had guided these corn plants and worked hard and she was not, now, going to give up the winter’s dried corn soup to a flock of birds, no matter how hungry they were. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

An important shipment of plants from California failed to arrive, worsening an already critical shortage of all plants. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

All those are direct ways in which plant and animal domestication led to denser human populations by yielding more food than did the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was not a reed or a plant to be seen above the water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second, if they do know their local plants and animals, do they exploit that knowledge to domesticate the most useful available species, or do cultural factors keep them from doing so? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are leafy potted plants in all four corners of the room. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Harry believed that after you were dead and buried you changed to plants and fire and dirt and clouds and water. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Naturally, strawberry plants didn’t set out with a conscious intent of attracting birds when, and only when, their seeds were ready to be dispersed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra saw the silver fairy with blue hair plant a kiss on an obese imp. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

From the bus I saw a farmer walking his field, waiting for the mud to tell him when to plant. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The ship wandered from island to island—there were about eighteen in all—and Darwin ventured ashore, scrambling through the pumice, collecting birds, plants, and lizards. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Clary was always kind to her, and working with the plants took Lina’s mind off her grief. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The plants were hardly more than a gray-green shadow, and a gentle mist wafted up from sprinklers in the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In most farming societies people focused on plant cultivation; raising animals was a secondary activity. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night he planted the baby, I again knew a thing before it happened. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rancher examined a few plants and said he thought a blight had infested the plants. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It was early spring and we were her garden, and she was starting to see the bulbs and seeds that she had planted in us last fall coming up. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Next we put the plants on their side to see how they would grow. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

These were plants, they discovered, taller than they were, with stems as hard and thick as the walls of houses, and leaves that spread out over their heads. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Shin’s class was often given a daily quota of trees to plant or acorns to gather. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He does not believe that the shape or colour of a plant has any significance for an understanding of its medical use. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There is a scrap metal recycling plant, a sprawling Goodyear tire factory, and a plastics factory. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Tralfamadorians, of course, say that every creature and plant in the Universe is a machine. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

These plants “remained constant without exception,” he wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I lifted Hassan’s mattress and planted my new watch and a handful of Afghani bills under it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I move in when he's not looking, ready to plant a fat, wet one on his lips, but someone calls my name. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the spines of an overgrown rattan, she wedged herself up against a rotting log shrouded with moss and air plants. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Many people still believed in spirits that lived in animals and plants, and these spirits spoke to them about the coming of a very bad time. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then we lose almost all of the plants. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

These women spent their days in the steady labors of planting, digging, and pounding manioc, though the dreamy way they moved through that work made it seem entirely separate from any end product. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My guess is your plants are bigger than most?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Newcharlie had put plants in all the windows—spider plants and ferns and some other ones I don't know the name of. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

As far as plants are concerned, we’re just one of thousands of animal species that unconsciously “domesticate” plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mo had always been on the lookout for new plants. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The smell of the coking plant coming in under the dawn, the first reliable smell of every day. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The gardens were planted with jasmine, honeysuckle, and baby’s breath. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, there was that new tuft of plants in that one forest clearing. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had lots of time to cook and try mixing different plants with different meats to make things taste better— and I must say I originated some excellent meals. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like how perennial plants seem to die in the winter, but really, they’re just waiting till everything is all right again. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

By three billion years ago, a number of one-celled plants had joined together, perhaps because a mutation prevented a single cell from separating after splitting in two. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Pacific peoples spread beyond the range of wool-yielding domestic animals and fiber plant crops and hence of woven clothing, they became dependent on pounded bark “cloth” for their clothing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It involved harvesting everything left on the plants after the first picking, including cotton bulbs, shells, and leaves. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Three plants in pots graced the window facing east toward the front of the courthouse. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Truman needed to stop asking questions about the secret war plants. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maria sought out wealthy collectors such as Agneta Block, a skilled breeder of rare and tropical plants, who invited Maria to visit her estate. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I pushed against the earth, trying to stand, and found my fingers tangled among the cool, waxy leaves of the mallow plant that clung to the marshy verges of the river. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Candice assumed the textile plant she mentioned was the one owned by the Allen family. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Foliage turned yellow, plants failed to mature, and many crops were killed outright. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I say: "I have an idea. I want to plant the sunflowers downstairs." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He plants the seeds after harvest in late summer for the crop the following year. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t listen, not really, because Baba’s casual little comment had planted a seed in my head: the resolution that I would win that winter’s tournament. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

By one billion years ago, plants, working cooperatively, had made a stunning change in the environment of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’d first gotten to Colby, most of that garden had been just rows of tiny green plants poking out of the ground. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We learned that wildlife, like deer and butterflies, depend on native plants for survival, and if we remove the bushes and small trees along our coastlines, then hurricanes could cause increased coastal erosion. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Poems of the period were either descriptions of objects, plants, weather conditions, geographical features or emotional states, or they followed a narrative. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If all the fake plants and trees swayed to life right now, I wouldn’t be surprised. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I planted my heels firmly and resisted the pull of his arm. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The tea was mild, tasting like the air after a rainstorm, when all the grass and plants smell green and earth is damp. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would show him that I could raise plants, as he had. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my flour sack stuffed with plants and weeds, I wandered along the railroad tracks, letting my footsteps fall evenly on each tie. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The wind, it seems, isn’t discriminatory in which kind of plant pollen it blows. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Should he have planted the twenty- eight thousand pecan trees when the only thing he knew about pecans was that “they’re all named after Indians?” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a rule domesticated plants are less genetically diverse than wild species, because breeders try to breed out characteristics they don't want. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The morning sun was coming through the window behind him, falling on the pink flowers of the hibiscus plant that sat on the sill. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But if I see so much as the twinkle of a weapon on any of the medics, I might be tempted to detonate a few of the mines I have planted in the grounds.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The water was green with plant life, and the trees hung over its glassy surface. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Bright blue rocks are layered over the bottom of the tank, with fake plants sprouting through them, coral reef ornaments scattered at random. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

When that happened, seeds that immediately sprouted grew into plants whose seeds were harvested and planted in the next year. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the plant didn’t crash onto his bald spot, I consider my plan a success. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet a pernicious seed had been planted—a perception of me as disgruntled and vaguely hostile, lacking some expected level of grace. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He never listens to me, not when he’s got an idea planted in his mind. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It looked like a painting, the ridges of brown earth, the tepees of dark green tomato plants with their bright red fruits, the bent figures of the pickers and the blue sky overhead. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This place hasn’t been planted for a long time,” he said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was a dead plant in the open top drawer of a dented filing cabinet. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then in the evening he stood in the doorway of his house and looked across the land, his own land, lying loose and fresh from the winter’s freezing, and ready for planting. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"That I'll pay with goodwill!" said Dunstan, and with that he leaned across the stall, amid the twinkling jingling of the crystal flowers, and planted a chaste kiss on her soft cheek. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We best be getting them soon, so they can be broken in by planting time.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the blank of the face, tenderly it seemed, planted his chisel at the forehead and was about to come down on her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

An incubator is set way too high at thirty-seven degrees Celsius, which makes no sense for a defoliant to kill Sagan’s plant life for terra-forming. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But Erudite scientists developed this highly effective mineral solution a while hack. It was better for the plants than dirt,” he says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Jessica’s the one who killed your plant. Like, she knocked it over on purpose. She told me.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I had to admit, the more I saw of her, the easier it was to believe she was a plant, a joke, anything but real. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They take me somewhere and plant me in a chair. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The afghan is draped across her thighs, the rubber plant rises behind her like a fan. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Baba had had a stage built on the balcony that over­looked the garden and planted speakers throughout the yard. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The meat and plants from the woods combined with the exertion it took to get them have given me a healthier body than most of those I see around me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why,” Jiichan said, “but in the world not so much plant you can eat. Most plant for to look beautiful. Make you happy. That important too.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And he was just about to do that when a mountain laurel planted near the corner of the house caught his attention. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

So we quietly plant our hopes out here in the jungle, just a few kilometers from the Angolan border, at the end of an awful road where Mobutu’s spies won’t often risk their fancy cars. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because plants eat light, in much the way we eat food. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Each fossilized plant was identified, and there was also a chart showing the evolution of plants from the dinosaurs to the present day. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The herbs in the air reminded her of the hills around Camp Half-Blood in the summer, when the satyrs and naiads gathered wild plants in the lazy afternoons. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When she could not run any harder, any longer, she’d fallen from the thick jungle of corn plants onto a bare, grassy field, trees all around. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Gran had only recently planted the seed of Juilliard in my head, but it hadn’t taken root. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Millet arranged to borrow tropical plants and trees from the Horticulture Building and have them moved to the lakeshore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Most of the wild plant species from which our crops were derived vary genetically from area to area, because alternative mutations had become established among the wild ancestral populations of different areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Much as the Industrial Revolution changed the environment for moths, farming changed the environment for plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Humans selected bigger ears with fatter kernels and planted those seeds. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

According to the basic evolutionary criteria of survival and reproduction, wheat has become one of the most successful plants in the history of the earth. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If I work for you, and plant and build and harvest for you, and do the work of your dead servants, I would like to taste your brother Suttung’s mead." Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He leveled the gun, planted it tight against his exceedingly sore shoulder, turned off the safety, and took aim at the running pig. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The morning air smelled of irrigation, warm plants, and fertilized earth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He pointed at the corn plant, and BAM! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Nah, let’s leave it,” I say, backing up from the plant slowly. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

From the slugs of irradiated uranium, fissile plutonium would be extracted at a second plant ten miles away, eventually to be sent on its way to Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Olmsted valued plants, trees, and flowers not for their individual attributes but rather as colors and shapes on a palette. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Even without sunlight, there were actual plants—clumps of reeds, scrawny leafless trees, even a few sickly-looking flowers blooming in the muck. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even before the crops are planted, the fields are watered to get any weed seeds to grow. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Sedges and ferns and graceful bulrush would be planted on the banks of the Wooded Island to conjure density and intricacy and “to slightly screen, without hiding, flowers otherwise likely to be too obtrusive.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She is only as tall as a house plant. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Snail planted the new seeds given to him by Tortoise. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Aaron and I mostly just laugh at him and his nerdy plant guidebook the entire time, but it’s pretty fun. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear occupied his mind by identifying the birds he heard and the plants he saw. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was a cool, gray morning, and Baba was squatting next to me, digging the soil and planting the bulbs I handed to him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Other tykes have eaten the oleander. It’s a danger, having a poisonous plant grow wild everywhere. They ought to pull it all up, not leave it where the tykes can get at it.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like Demeter had set the timer on all the plants to grow several decades ago, then forgotten to come back and check on them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then time waa pain about Guenever herself, the tiny plant of bitterness which they had sown, or seen sown, in each other’s eyes, an die occasion of their first quarrel of suspicion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt my feet planted firmly on the floor, and I cracked my own smile as I stood and stepped toward Headmaster Patterson, and I didn't slouch or hang my head, or even look away. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

For classical and Renaissance authors every well-known animal or plant came with a complex chain of associations and meanings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He wanted to remember the morning, bright and clear as the leaves on the little green plants which grew low and close to the sandy ground. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This city is a foreigner’s premise of efficiency planted on this soil, and it’s a very bad idea. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bob loomed over them, his broom planted like a flag. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

To relieve the monotony, some people planted small gardens or painted their doors bright colors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a week, the Martian soil will be ready for plants to germinate in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But any food production that did arise indigenously in Australia would have been limited by the lack of domesticable animals, the poverty of domesticable plants, and the difficult soils and climate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The forest is full of many other plants deemed inedible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment my legs remained stiffly planted beside the pumpkins, then the blood came racing to my limbs again, and I ran from the spot screeching with fear and not looking behind me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why aren’t the dirt and plants sliding off the other side?” he asked. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The plant took up residence in the southern windowsill of the laboratory and, after some anxiety on my part, grabbed a firm hold on life. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Axel smells the plant pickup on her blue shirt. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“How is the planting? Has the garden come up? And the corn?” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Like how plants can live through winter in the frozen ground and still bloom again in spring. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He would go back there now, where she had shown him the plant. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

So with human help, corn can now take genes from other plants and animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It smelled like Babulya’s most delectable tinctures, when she took the most aromatic of her plants and stewed them into good magic. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

"I found that the majority of the workers employed at all plants were either prisoners of war or German military prisoners or Russians," Dasch said. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I come into the living room and explain my plan, which is for us to drive around town and take small cuttings from interesting plants. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Uh, Demeter,” he said, “the plant goddess. She—she didn’t like Hades because...” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She bustles about, uprooting dead plants and weeds, and mulching new life into the tired dirt. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I scraped up a ring of dirt around the first plant, to hold the water and any rain that fell. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Africa’s domesticated animal species can be summarized much more quickly than its plants, because there are so few of them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That’s the way farmers had always gotten their seed—they just kept some of their crop to be planted for the next season. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In spite of the glider disaster, the British and Americans were still determined to destroy the Vemork heavy water plant in Norway. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

These greenish wild plants grew copiously near lavatories. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he swung both boys into the wheelbarrow and planted them on top of the culled canes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Weeding, pruning an apricot tree, planting squash and zucchini seeds, picking veggies. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When they had first moved in, Emma had planted bluebells and anemones, primroses, cowslips, and wild ivy, which she especially loved. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must have taken her ’round the rooms they use for the orderlies—perhaps even planted a few as dummy prisoners. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Lee—” Chubs’s voice was unnaturally high, but it was the look in Zu’s eyes that planted me in place. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She said the plant had damaged its roots and no water could get to it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On either side of the path were cushioned couches, and all around were potted plants: artfully trimmed orange trees, flowering camellias, white roses twining up lattices along the glass walls. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grip the ball, plant my feet on the line, and shoot the first one. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The pines were planted in ranks and files. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess he and the other Klan members planted the church bomb to explode on that Sunday as a threat to stop us from integrating the public all-white schools in Birmingham.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I used the floor water to wash down the front steps and threw the last of it on the seeds I’d planted in coffee tins by the door. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A few trees spotted the hillsides, but most of the land had been cleared and planted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After breakfast I milked the cow and planted some more of the garden: melons, beets, and several rows of beans. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Gradually the plant engineer removed the tubing to use to patch other outworn equipment at the Hediondo. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we’ve seen, this means that a pasture holds a dozen or more types of plants—a real example of biodiversity. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

If E.T. were real, we could gauge his health based upon this plant. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The storm clouds returned the grass and plants started growing again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The United States Office of Plant Introduction alone has introduced almost 200,000 species and varieties of plants from all over the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

With so few major crops in the world, all of them domesticated thousands of years ago, it’s less surprising that many areas of the world had no wild native plants at all of outstanding potential. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The zigzagging path leading to the front door was overgrown with a variety of odd plants, including a bush covered in the orange radishlike fruit Luna sometimes wore as earrings. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Embedded in the ground is a license plate, one that suddenly looks familiar, and circling this is a small garden where someone has planted flowers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He plucked out the plant and held it between his finger and thumb before grinding it into dust. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of which he had gone and blindly planted himself next to Morgana. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

To me, it looked more like a plant. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

"And what did your extended family of gardeners ask you to plant?" said Miss Fleck. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plenty, plenty,” said Slughorn, who, Harry saw, was carrying an armful of leafy plants. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Meggie went over to the window, rested her forehead on the pane, and looked down at the garden, where a couple of Capricorn's maids were busy tying up tomato plants. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We would pay off the loan and have enough for the next year’s planting. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the other farmers would have to wait for another planting cycle. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel myself growing stronger, like one of those plants in a time-lapse video, And the scent coming from the cave was nothing like the dank wet underground. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As they rode, the plants became larger until they were as high as the belly of the horse. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The planting never got done because he had been waiting for the right time of the moon when his sickness overtook him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

As they inspected the factory and learned the best way to cut the power supply, Dasch noticed that the "foreign labor" at the plant was actually the Nazi version of "slave labor." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

But now that there is evidence to indicate that the Terran Colony was an experiment, the planting of one Hainish Normal group on a world with its own proto-hominid autochthones, the possibility cannot be ignored. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud of bugs swarmed around my face every time I touched a withered plant. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Sons planted their own spies wherever they could. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They told of wild “savages” with completely different beliefs and customs; plants with magical powers; and fantastical beasts, bigger and fiercer than any known in Europe. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Some plants engorge themselves with water in the rare rainfall and store it for future use. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the development of interstate highways in the 1950s, meatpacking and shipping could take place in plants located closer to the farms where livestock was raised. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then he planted his front feet and came to a stop in front of Charlotte’s children. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Garland Farm followed simple logic: you plant tomato seeds, you get tomato plants. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Genie had never seen the birds in Brooklyn pecking at plants, but that was probably because he never really saw plants in Brooklyn. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was definitely trying to plant a kiss on me, I knew he was, but there was nothing I could do about it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Baker & Inglis, with an impressive physical plant but a small endowment, wasn’t averse to increasing enrollment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But because most manufacturing plants were in the North, it was better able to supply its army throughout the war. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They pull into a driveway flanked by thick trees and drive up to the house at the top of the hill, the same old vibrant orange exterior and smooth arches, tall cactuses and aloe plants. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was like a compass, with one leg swinging around the globe and the other planted in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She planted a wet kiss on my forehead, then held me at arm’s length and began to babble in Ukrainian. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He showed them how to plant corn and how to live on the edge of the wilderness. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It eats plants and tree limbs and even whole trees, if you let it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the weekends, after Baba cycles along the river, the two of them tackle the garden side by side, planting mums and seeding new raised beds with beets, radishes, and garlic. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stole eggs from nests, caught fish in nets, sometimes managed to shoot a squirrel or rabbit for stew, and gathered the various plants that sprung up beneath my feet. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We settled into our camping chairs and planted our feet on the circle of stones. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had been sentenced for planting explosives outside a Cape Town prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a highly specific organism, attacking no other type of insects, harmless to earthworms, warm-blooded animals, and plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The foreman of one plant in Mobile, a large brute, allowed me to tell him what I could do. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” I call after him, “it’s okay. Anyway, I have this, um, plant food downstairs. Special plant food. I forgot that, too.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In connection with the new arrangement, Lawrence received approval for his expanded Alpha II plant, which would supplement the feed from the diffusion process in a final push to produce uranium enriched to weapon-grade. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Every living being—plant, animal, human, fay—had its place in the cycle of life and death. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I planted a potato seed. It was supposed to be a potato. But nobody picked it when it was time to dig potatoes. Everybody missed it.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Of the 138 known domesticated plant species in the Amazon, more than half are trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You dig one plant, leave two plant; dig one, leave two. So plant come back next season. And ask plant permission.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the edges, near the tracks, tall weeds have taken over—tough plants with stringy stalks, small leaves, and compact flowers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Jeanne plants her shoulder into his side and begins rolling him over. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The lack of rain I saw in 12 has damaged the plants here as well, leaving some with brittle leaves, building a crunchy carpet under our feet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She learned about the four humors that govern the body, how to plant corn by moonlight, and where the Antipodes are. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The drones were unable to collect the underwater plants. So, the Collective will need to forage samples in person. Risk is high, so the Zeta unit will collect these among other specimens we need.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Just last week we helped Mama plant collard and mustard green seeds and sweet potatoes to harvest later in the fall and into winter. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sara pulls more fruit off the plant, making a little basket with the bottom of her tunic to hold them. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

About how the plant died—how we’d killed a plant that could survive toxins and death. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And we animals, who are ultimately parasites on the plants, steal the carbohydrates so we can go about our business. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our hardest task is teaching people to count on a future: to plant citrus trees, and compost their wastes for fertilizer. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you planted pumpkin seeds there, in a few months there would be large plants growing across the ground, and a few months after that, there would be great yellow pumpkins ripening in the sun. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Sunny is standing cross-armed in front of Ma, short legs planted widely. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I planted, I began thinking about the fact that my birthday was coming in two days. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And the terrible thing is, right when he stepped through, he planted his foot between my legs. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Spider plants let down vines from the glass roof. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For as long as I can remember, I spent late afternoons with Grandma India in her garden, tending her four o’clock plants. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gus out in the garden in his greasy baseball cap, picking nasty green worms off the tomato plants. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I am consoled, somewhat, by the thought that the green plants are in the same fix. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Ultima, even the plants had a spirit, and before I dug she made me speak to the plant and tell it why we pulled it from its home in the earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like maybe you got her green thumb. The two of us could plant something and see how it grows; test your thumb out.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d already plunged into the yellowing, crisping plants, dying plants, he’d already stumbled forward several dozen yards, when he began to feel stupid again, wrong again, worried again. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Set off by lightning, wildfires reset the ecological clock, dialing the array of plants and animals back a few successional stages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It is a world where the enchanted forest of the fairy tales has become the poisonous forest in which an insect that chews a leaf or sucks the sap of a plant is doomed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, the word animal includes all living creatures except for plants. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

What makes an insecticide a systemic is the ability to permeate all the tissues of a plant or animal and make them toxic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Seaweed clings to her skull like a lethal plant. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred's eyes dropped down to the man's shoes, planted solidly on the wooden floor, black shoes curling with age but highly polished. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gives us warmth and life; it melts the bitter snow and ice of winter; it makes plants grow and flowers bloom. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The occasion for the proof of it came some months later on one afternoon when Remedios the Beauty went with a group of girl friends to look at the new plantings. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When they had finished planting, as though summoned, rain sprinkled down in a mist. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

What cavewoman or caveman ever got the idea of “domesticating” a plant, and how was it accomplished? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I let them sit for a few hours to harden a bit, then planted them, well spaced apart, in the corner. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mr. Chris knew about flowers and birds and things, but Joe was the one who knew about bugs and the queer plants that grew on stumps and fallen trees. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The essence of artificial selection—for a Heike crab, a dog, a cow or an ear of corn—is this: Many physical and behavioral traits of plants and animals are inherited. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She planted her hands on her hips and glared at Father. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“The jungle’s full of strange creatures and plants. But by watching us, I’d know the seafood’s safe.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would follow along planting corn or potatoes in the furrows. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

About that time people learned to plant and grow grasses like wheat, rice, and corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He adjusts his stance until his feet are planted wide, bows his head so that his hair obscures his face, and holds the microphone up in the air in one hand—classic rock star pose. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was a student from the University of Winnipeg, studying our plants and their medicines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Compared with cereals and legumes, they had the drawback of not starting to yield food until at least three years after planting, and not reaching full production until after as much as a decade. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Panting heavily, his jaw bruised and his leg bleeding, the agent crawled toward the beauty queen and smeared her mouth with the Mind’s Flower fruit, torn from a neighboring plant. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The canyon was the way he always remembered it; the bee- weed plants made the air smell heavy and sweet like wild honey, and the bumblebees were buzzing around waxy yucca flowers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel truly unhappy that I have to neglect my plants...so completely,” Mendel wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He stood in front of the open doors and shook the potato plants in his hand. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The question sours in my mouth as he turns back to yanking the rest of the tattered plants. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

If you spat on each grain of corn that was planted, the corn would grow tall and bear well. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plant was a long rectangular building with a few windows high up the walls. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mama used her plant magic to coax delicious, sweet onions out of the earth. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The Breedloves did not live in a storefront because they were having temporary difficulty adjusting to the cutbacks at the plant. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out where she worked as a secretary for a petrochemical plant, many of the blue-collar workers used the word all the time. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not object when I planted it at the end of the yard, away from the maple. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

All he had was a seed, newly planted by Siobhan’s last riddle—pi plus e—and her favorite book. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My master's degree in botany makes me pretty sure plants need wet dirt to grow in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since it is the solar year, not the lunar year, that determines the time for harvest and planting, the seasons seem to drift when you reckon by an uncorrected lunar year. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It had been filled in and planted over. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The granddaughter and her aunts had counted them and planted them diagonally across the heart, joke candles that wouldn't blow out. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"Do you know much about plants?" she asks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The arrival of founder domesticates enabled local people to become sedentary, and thereby increased the likelihood of local crops’ evolving from wild plants that were gathered, brought home and planted accidentally, and later planted intentionally. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She plants her hands on her hips, and now she’s staring into the flames as though searching for something. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Mandrake-growers have been known to seize the leaves of one of their prize plants only to find a bloody mangled mess below owing to the attentions of a Dugbog. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the roof of the shed and the big plant that hangs over the fence from the house next door I could see the constellation Orion. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Dane may have the paper kind of legal, but he has none of the kind that’s planted inside.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In all, archaeologists sifting through Jomon garbage have identified 64 species of edible plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I showed him what plants to eat and eventually gave him one of our precious bows. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Poor nervous Dedd, who had edged up the patio towards us and was rewatering all the plants, said that yes, that would be wise. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still desperately short of plants, he complained. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Doc’s going to go out tonight to gather plants in the marsh, so we’ll have some time to look.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Soon, spring plants would poke up through dead leaves. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The plant’s petals looked more like pointy green fingers with red tips, different from the petals I was used to seeing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This one would include flowers and plants, but its focus would be the insects feeding on those plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Leroy’s at the plant until five and I’m feeling too heavy for my time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She planted her hands on his chest and started CPR. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And what you plant is a bare seed . . . not the full-bodied plant that will later grow up. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Water in the earth had dissolved parts, and the plants had sucked them up. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Pickers were scattered among tomato plants that rose up from the tops of furrows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Foragers mastered not only the surrounding world of animals, plants and objects, but also the internal world of their own bodies and senses. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slunk around the car and planted a tight-lipped peck on her cheek. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She's bent over the potted plants in the kitchen windowsill, watering them and putting her face so close it's like she's thinking of licking their leaves or something. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When everything was ready, thirty-four British commandos would fly in on gliders, land, and set out for the plant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mists rising from the water, he could have been a woeful little bush planted between the willow and the pine. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly, I planted my feet at the foul line. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fatal results may follow, also, from less toxic herbicides if the plant itself happens to be poisonous or perhaps to possess thorns or burs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They planted their fields carefully and all about their new plants they built fences made out of sticks and pieces of thorn tree. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Engineered pollen blows just as easily as the original kind and infects all traditional plants in its path. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Dropping to the ground, she crouched in a thicket of oleanders planted just under the window. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In the strange light, beautiful plants grew—giant orchids, star-shaped flowers, vines bursting with orange and purple berries that crept among the crystals. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The rear garden was a tangled jungle in which every type of plant and flower had proliferated and where Clara’s birds kept up a steady din, along with many generations of cats and dogs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t have worried, though, because the Pastor threw me a curve by turning left and heading directly for the big place beside the Kites’, the one without a Century 21 sign planted out front. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The tobacco plants grew tall, and the leaves were broad and green. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

After the planting was done, it would not be such a sore subject. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And so, while waiting for him and pretending to inspect plants and small water courses, I tried to reconstruct my trip as a single piece and not as a series of incidents. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plants came to their chests and swayed in the breeze. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Occasional mutant individuals among wild plants lacked thick seed coats or other inhibitors of germination. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now before his walks he often stopped into the hothouse to take a look at his plants. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve learned how to say it. Accident. I assume that was another suggestion you and Father planted, to never bring up the accident.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Amari knew, however, that it was just a matter of time before she would be toiling in the hot sun, up to her knees in water, planting the rice, one kernel after another. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riccio planted himself in front of Prosper so he would have to look at him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

This one's got a long narrow planter with chili pepper plants. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Clutched him in a hug and planted a kiss on his cheek. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It moves up past his knees and it’s coming faster now—he has to plant his feet more firmly to prevent them from being swept out from under him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“He’s becoming a man. Men act strange from time to time, and I am worried about what the hole in the ozone layer is doing to the plants in the rain forest.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

So I tell Ida she come plant on my side. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He planted his lips on the ring, pressing hard, feeling the edge of the setting catch on his lip. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He sat in the chair all morning—rather like an overseer-watching while I plowed, harrowed and then planted the two rows of beets. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She planted a kiss on his cheek, leaving two red, lipsticked smears. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night I dream of the corn plant. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the vast majority of wild plants don’t reproduce that way. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At one end of the garden, William had planted a Talisman rose. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Bill had a job in a bottling plant and made ten dollars a week. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Holding him in her foul embrace she filled him with herself and planted hunger within him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hard winter had been followed by no sign of spring, and Maesie had delayed planting at first, hoping for sunshine and warmth before she subjected her seedlings to the cold earth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped, and the leaves of the plants down below looked greener. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In a subsequent version of his analysis of plant hybrids, he mentioned Mendel glowingly and acknowledged that he had merely “extended” Mendel’s earlier work. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It felt good to be among all the plants and herbs. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She plants a gentle kiss on Hiroshi’s cheek and slips past me like a deer. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the South, many black children were allowed to attend school only a few months each year; from planting time to harvest, they worked long days on the farm. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But those gathered seeds would have constituted the material for the unconscious first steps of plant domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bricks had been cleaned very well, and through the wide and open windows one could see an assortment of well-groomed plants. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

So the Japanese began to plant booby traps. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time for the fun of following his friend away from the thick green plant life, away from the nest and the missing eagle parents, across an imaginary line between forest and home. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

According to the handout, McNuggets also contain several completely synthetic ingredients, items that come not from a corn or soybean field but from a petroleum refinery or chemical plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On a bank below the lawns, crocuses were planted, golden, pink, and mauve, but by this time they would be past their best, dropping and fading, like the pallid snowdrops. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I honestly hadn’t thought of asking Maylene, but when the girls brought it up, that thing happened where someone plants the idea in your head and it changes your perception. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Although Charles continued to direct the battle for evolution behind the scenes and work on new books for his publisher, what gave him the most pleasure was doing experiments with his orchids and other plants. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was an unofficial priest and presided over ritual slaughtering of goats and calves and officiated at local traditional rites concerning planting, harvest, birth, marriage, initiation ceremonies, and funerals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She crossed her feet and blended into the plants, still as a stone. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those were her plants growing in the garden. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Passersby do not seem to notice a young man sitting beside a corn plant in the middle of a magic circle, seeking. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a warm winter and a balmy spring in Bone Gap, so everyone with a field and a taste for corn had plowed and planted earlier than they’d ever dared before. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

On both sides of the road we were surrounded by miles and miles of cotton plants. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The author encouraging young people to plant trees in Africa. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he could say they were planted, that this was part of a larger conspiracy against him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As we drove past the packing plant and into downtown Tangerine, Henry D. started to tell me about last year’s game with Lake Windsor. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole class looked up from their microscopes, where we were studying plant cells, and faced me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Abby planted herself in front of the pile and folded her arms. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

There are innumerable plant-animal combinations, mostly in the sea, where the green plant cells provide carbohydrate and oxygen for the animal and receive a share of energy in return. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One set of plants was grown using organic methods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A generation later, as wheat plants multiplied and spread, the harvest camp might have lasted for five weeks, then six, and finally it became a permanent village. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heidi walks up to the casting assistant and exchanges some words, her head shaking a lot and hands planted firmly on her hips. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Like the furniture and the toys, and all of her mom's plants and paintings. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Boring Sunday. Mom and Dad are arguing about some plant thing, so I was more than happy to get out of the house.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He went with her to learn about the roots and plants she had gathered. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He planted himself in front of us and asked how we liked the job. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Kyle kept his right hand firmly planted on the right wall of shelves and started inching his way forward. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The narcotics cops had been known to rush up and get their hands on you and plant evidence while “searching.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard later that the man had sold his nursery and one hundred thousand plants for five hundred dollars. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once the all-purpose solution, Washington was now the still-potent problem, a kind of Trojan horse planted squarely in the Virginia fortress. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the time it reaches us, industrial food has been processed so much it no longer seems like something made from plants and animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On the windowsills, Tyson had set out water-filled vases with sea anemones and strange glowing plants from the bottom of the ocean, more beautiful than any flower bouquets the Demeter kids could whip up. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Just above is this world, the place of now, the dwelling of the plants, the people, and the fierce jaguar.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The landlord had said yes, so Papa planted one. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Not one tree, not two, not a dozen, but the thousands he had planted in seed and sprout. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five yards from where I fell, I crawl through a tangle of plants into a pond. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He moved to a back corner, beneath what looked like a kind of rubber plant, and pointed out a birdcage, which I hadn’t seen before. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Pots and pots of green plants were lined in the dirty snow, certain to die of the cold; ivy, canna, a tomato plant. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason is simple: most species of plants and animals can’t be domesticated. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Potted plants and trees sprout here and there, vines hang down from the balconies. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I saw they had little gardens going, I said to myself, "I believe I'll plant me a patch of goldenrod right here." Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The animals and plants on Earth and the structures of our buildings are all evolved or designed for 1 g. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard a fountain gurgling, and smelled juniper and cedar and a bunch of other sweet-scented plants. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ozwin, the farmer-botanist, needed a glasshouse and fields for planting, so he, too, had to go out of the city and out of the citadel’s shadow, where his seeds and seedlings would see sunlight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I had decided to plant corn as my grain rather than wheat, oats or barley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Okay, this is good. It means new beginnings— like a seed has been planted, kind of, but you might not know it yet.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The plant was built with sufficient room to install more tanks if production failed to continue ramping up. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He kept his right foot planted on the floor so no one could see the writing that proclaimed him a clone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were the stacks of books everywhere, and posters with words on them, and some plants. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have named this one Torontodalisque: Homage to Ingres, because of the pose, and the rubber plant like a fan behind her. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Quill put the plant down and wrung her hands nervously. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe, she theorized, the girl's parents owned a plant nursery. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

In front of each house was a tiny lawn planted with either morning glories or a hydrangea bush. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Now a rosebush has been planted over the neat grass. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

For all I could tell, the King's Court was going to be where I planted my flag. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She led them through the garden, delaying, showing off this and that new planting. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The books composed of page after page of ink drawings of plants with descriptions of their medical uses. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he got home, Mama would need to tell him that the debils had left us with no crop to sell, no rice to eat, and no seed for next year’s planting. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bright red and orange plants sprouted within one of its eye sockets. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Before the next day was out everybody in town knew that James Grew had been in trouble in Boston, and no one could possibly imagine that Cathy had planted the story. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Quietly, however, one of these conversations plants the seed of an idea. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She described different features of each plant and explained the best way to remember them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Then when we got married, we had all we could do trying to keep up with planting and keeping house and then you came along. Wasn’t no time for books.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Never thought the sight of growing plants could be so thrilling.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When we caught up with him he was standing with his feet planted in wet sand, looking back at us with a self-satisfied 1-told-you-so grin. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We walked a weaving line around the plant life, up and down washes and gullies, the Maricopas looming lavender in the distance. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The white-green poison kept pooling, little streams trickling from the plants as the venomous lake around him got wider and wider. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They carry everything from lapdogs to jewelry boxes to potted plants. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The seed Coach Mustilli had planted in my mind was sprouting into reality. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He had taught me which plants made which colors and how to mix them to make more, and I loved being his assistant in both the kitchen and the field. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The lack of rain and the fact that the park’s waterworks were not yet completed meant Olmsted could not plant exposed portions of the grounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Either they were bulbs she had already planted or they had been in the sack so long they had germinated. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to the letters is a picture of clouds, rain, sun, plants, roots, and soil, with red arrows pointing from one thing to another, like symbols on a treasure map. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have never grown them and cannot remember when my father used to plant them. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Underneath the spread branches of the oaks the plants grew pale and tall, and on the hills the feed was smooth and thick. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s late with her planting this year, and she shouldn’t have waited. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

When he goes to the bathroom I plant my face in it and inhale. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The remaining major type of change invisible to early farmers involved plant reproduction. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cooking vastly increased the number of plants and animals we could eat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Many Herbs, shrubs, and trees of forests and range depend on native insects for their reproduction; without these plants many wild animals and range stock would find little food. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t know much about plants or flowers, but I could see this one was well kept and rather stunning. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He planted it right in her midsection; she yelped and jolted backward, flailed to grab hold of her partner. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The freezing plant that Mr. Popper had got for the penguins downstairs was a large and good one. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was one obvious option: a night-shift job at a chicken processing plant. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Arm replied, “We all come from the village of Hwange, near the nuclear power plant.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

No. I had planted a stake and now I had something to prove, to my mami and to myself, to everyone from my neighborhood. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The unfortunate corn plant, following its Mexico-adapted genetic program, would prepare to thrust up its shoots in March, only to find itself still buried under 10 feet of snow. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Eddie planted morning glories to run over the door and Hazel acquired some rather rare fuchsia bushes planted in five-gallon cans which made the entrance formal and a little cluttered. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had known,” Truman later said, “something that was unusually important was brewing in our war plants.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Right. And maybe it is provided by my family too. The Buttles who came before me. The ones who planted the orchard. Before the place even had a first apple season.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

How can a fancy car go through the fields and help a farmer plant or pick? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

John had recently been assigned to work at our local steam plant. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The girl is in front of me, planting her fist in her eye to wrestle out the sleep that has lodged there. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The object of selective spraying is not to produce grass on roadsides and rights-of-way but to eliminate the tall woody plants by direct treatment and to preserve all other vegetation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Inside the gate the man went along the fence, studying some plants tied up to stakes. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira gathered the cloth around the plants she had collected and tied the edges together. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Zeta-1, was it really useful to collect so much of this one plant?” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I return to the stairs, and as I sit here in a slice of winter sunlight, two small birds find their way down to the honeysuckle planted next to the bamboo. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They were standing beside a bed of geraniums planted near the Hall of Open Records. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Dug up all those plants, that big purple one, the stones—everything.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

All the seeds he had planted in the traditional group were gone. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But as will happen in gardens, other plants grew there—dog’s mercury and Jack-in-the-hedge—and they tended to overtake the plants Emma loved. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it rose too high, the water would submerge and kill shore plantings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We dug them out with a hand shovel, making sure not to damage the delicate plants. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

What is necessary is a program of artificial selection and genetic engineering of dark plants—perhaps lichens—that could survive the much more severe Martian environment. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I purchased Solara Industries simply so I could move their plant out of Lambert, ruining the Allens’ land lease. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was in the library in August that the seeds were planted that grew into the Egypt Game in September in the Professor’s deserted yard. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman stood up and planted her hamlike hands on her hips. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Two, you got to cultivate. Most folks go for flax at first; easier to plant. As I said, one-eighth of the claim.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“So be it! I will leave alone any seeds you plant in this cornfield. You must let me out this very moment! I need to make myself scarce. The sun rises!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

John and I look pretty similar, although he's grown a little stockier from long days at the plant. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Dad was nestling little ferny claw plants into the chinks between the rocks. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And when he was home, he was usually in the fields all day with Alfonso’s oxen, plowing or planting or harvesting. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he was entirely self-taught, never learned Latin, and had scant understanding of Linnaean classifications, he was a prize plant collector, with an uncanny knack for finding and recognizing unknown species. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even if they slap you six times on each hand with the ash plant or the blackthorn with the knobs you must not cry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They both laughed . .-. and Cersei leaned over and planted a quick, soft kiss on his brow. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of millennia, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk other than taking care of wheat plants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The only things he ever sent were seeds and plant cuttings for me to grow. I tried, but..." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

A father who loves you planted it for you. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I remember the outlines of garden beds not yet planted for the spring, a goat or two in a pen, one sodden dog tied to a post, hunched defeated in the muck. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The poultry processing plant where she worked was in the next town, about an hour from our house. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We already saw in Chapter 7 that all of these statements also apply to plant domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She limited bonsai plants and pampered rare orchids. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved the potato plants back in today. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a terrible vision then of Mrs. DiAngelo angrily ripping up the butterfly bush and the flowers I’d planted and heaving them all over the fence. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Late one night, I saw Murray and a few other folks who looked like they had leprosy planting flowers along Duval Street. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each plant and animal is exquisitely made; should not a supremely competent Designer have been able to make the intended variety from the start? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He planted each word like a man laying down bricks. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I planted my feet in case the ball suddenly came my way. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The air was empty of the smell of plants or flowers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The landing gear, ingress ramp, and fuel plant are still here. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though light in tone, they will help you see that my heart is now planted here, like Rooster Jim’s cherry tree. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bridge loved Tab’s living room: the plants on the windowsills, the black-and-white photographs on the walls, the jars of nail polish scattered across the coffee table like pretty rocks. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

‘They call it Pylosian mint. Apparently the plant sprang from the blood of a nymph who died on a mountain near here, back in ancient times. I didn’t ask for details.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

What plants are there, buried in the earth? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I figure somebody running off wouldn’t go to the trouble to plant flowers that won’t bloom until next year. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was left for Cradle to plant her boot heedlessly in the middle of the dropped cake. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was walking with her mother, a bespectacled woman in a plum-purple dress, whose long, somber face was shadowed by a straw hat adorned with enough silk violets to plant a garden. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

So Mom and I went to the plant nursery. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Hermione had managed to free herself before the plant got a firm grip on her. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

To make good on this offer, the automobile manufacturing plants were called into service. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When he went off to work on his resume, I decided to stay out of the plants and the sunny places for the rest of today while I get used to things around here. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“This flower used to be one of the rarest plants in the world. A white tiger orchid. In Rusty days, a single bulb was worth more than a house.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was the only way to plant hope among the ruins. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We’d helped her plant tomatoes in her yard earlier that summer. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I dig my toes into it deep and feel a great surge of greenness inside myself, as though I were a growing plant. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then people figured out how to grow it, just as they learned how to plant apple trees or berry bushes. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Many changes of plants under domestication resulted from such changes in conditions and hence in the favored types of individuals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z