Paul Horn

After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: chant music, solo bamboo flute sounds, a laid-back record of my own called 'Inside.' And the music became a very real part of my recovery process.

American Musician

Eddie Huang

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

American Chef

Marlon Brando

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

American Actor

Dia Mirza

I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that plastic! So I switched to bamboo toothbrushes years ago.

Indian Model

Rory Stewart

When my father was posted to Malaysia, we'd take bacon-and-egg sandwiches in our backpacks and go hiking in the jungle or make bamboo rafts to sail down rivers.

British Politician

Derek Walcott

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

Poet

Dian Fossey

For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.

American Scientist

Marcel Wanders

To me, relaxing doesn't mean that we play ding-dong songs and look at a wall of bamboo. It's just completely unoriginal.

Dutch Designer

Bruce Lee

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Steve Lacy

Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.

Bamboo is eco-friendly and used in sustainable building rather than just any construction.

Construction Material

Bamboo plays a vital role in Asian cultures, often symbolizing strength and resilience.

Cultural Significance

Bamboo isn't limited to building; it's used for clothing, utensils, and decorations, showing its versatility.

Versatile Use

Bamboo's texture is unique, providing a distinct, natural look to items like furniture or flooring.

Natural Texture

Bamboo is known for strength yet flexibility, suitable for crafting resilient items like rafts or bridges.

Strength and Flexibility

Bamboo shoots are a versatile food ingredient in various dishes, not just stir-fries, exemplifying culinary diversity.

Culinary Diversity

Bamboo shoots are considered healthy, often associated with traditional healing and nutrition in Asian cultures.

Health Perception

Bamboo shoots have a unique taste, adding a special flavor to dishes, rather than serving as filler.

Distinctive Taste

 The region’s bamboo plants produce massive amounts of fruit just once every few decades. Junglefowls’ ability to lay eggs daily may have evolved to take advantage of these rare feasts, increasing their population when food was abundant. This was something humans could exploit

History through the eyes...

 years to our knowledge and they go with bamboo harpoons and hunt for whales and I went out with them one day and there was a hole in the boat and there was a hole in the baler as well which is inconvenient we've forgotten to take an anchor and on top of that I was the only

Is invisibility the...

 The heart of school has seven kilometers of bamboo in it. From the time the foundations were finished, in three months it had roofs and floors. It may not be the biggest bamboo building in the world, but many people believe that it's the most beautiful.

John Hardy: My green...

 pop it just in around here any way you like but sometimes put in different places so a reason we put the bamboo in different places is so it's not the same place every day so it's enriching for him so how old are the red pandas here so there

Otters Have a Favourite...

 conservation society with Tigers forever and said listen you stop hunting you're going to make more money if we can stop the tiger coming into your village how about if we bring in bamboo and build some pens they built pens at the end of

Steve Winter: On the...

 and the native's bamboo spears ended the captain's life. Yet the voyage had to continue. Magellan's will specified that Enrique should be freed, but the expedition still needed an interpreter. With his freedom at stake,

How Magellan circumnaviga...

 So there are lots of things that we're still working on, but one thing I have learned is that bamboo will treat you well if you use it right. It's actually a wild grass. It grows on otherwise unproductive land --

Magical houses, made of...

 it does not change aspirations. Now poor people have lived in temporary structures all their life. They go from wall to wall, moving from bricks to tin. They move from building from bamboo,

What if the poor were...

 best candidate is pinpin he's brought to the nursery and placed in an adjoining pen to help things along one of the vets uses a stem of bamboo to touch the glands under Yosh wands tail

Giant Pandas' Mating...

 It is essential the swap happens quickly before foster mum notices baby is missing. A bamboo distraction can only last so long.