Mike deGruy

I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.

American Director

Sam Trammell

When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.

American Actor

Dorothea Dix

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

American Activist

Dr. John

Like the tangled veins of cypress roots that meander this way and that in the swamp, everything in New Orleans is interrelated, wrapped around itself in ways that aren't always obvious.

American Musician

George Washington Cable

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

American Novelist

Ho Chi Minh

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Vietnamese Revolutionary

Cypress trees often symbolize mourning and are used in funerals or cemeteries.

Symbolic Meaning

Cypress is popular in landscape gardening and can be seen in parks and large gardens.

Landscape Element

Wood from the cypress tree is durable and resistant to decay, making it valuable for building.

Durability of Wood

 were covered in cedar and cypress forests. And during the evolution of life on the Earth, it was the colonization of the land by plants that helped create the benign climate we currently enjoy. The converse is also true. The more vegetation we lose, the more that's likely to exacerbate climate change

Michael Pawlyn: Using...

 And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor. It's an absolute magical wonderland to live in -- if you're a kid interested in animals, to grow up in.

Mike deGruy: Hooked by...

 do you actually get the chance to feel vulnerable, or consider that the world may not have been made for just us? So for the last decade, I began seeking out these areas where the concrete yields to forest and the pines turn to cypress,

Stunning Photos of the...

 we're gonna do this we got to go always this team that's going about it in different ways we are about 50 feet in a cypress tree Carlton is having to wade through waist-deep water and then paddle board miles and heads the chase of this

Rare Ghost Orchid Has...

 piece of driftwood weather the heartwood of an old twisted cypress tree I've got it started I've gotten foundation I've got something to build on all of this is a result of months of rebuilding I've got to get the mainframe up in a few

Beaver for Bolts PIPE Live...

 it's quite easy to see that this cypress strip overlaps with a lot of green fertile land pixels. Even if I start degrading this map quite a bit, making it lower and lower resolution, it's still possible to tell

The galactic recipe for...

 include lodgepole pine eucalyptus Banksia some cypress trees sequoia trees some species of spruce and green heath in some forests the species have adapted

Meet the World's Tiniest...

 I'm going along I see this giant cypress tree where you look at the size of that tree that could have been the block out tree right there

Pirate's Belt Buckle PIPE...

 these bears dim in cypress trees over water in these very thick and dangerous sloths biologists don't know

Filming a Black Bear...

 spray and the cypress swamps of southern Florida