George Monbiot

Rainforests are not confined to the tropics: a good definition is forest wet enough to support epiphytes - plants that grow on other plants. Particularly in the west of Britain, where tiny fragments persist, you can find trees covered in rich growths of a fern called polypody, mosses and lichens, and flowering plants climbing the lower trunks.

British Writer

Janet Malcolm

My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen.

American Writer

Jennifer McMahon

I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair.

American Novelist

Timothy Morton

I grew up in a haunting postindustrial landscape where prehistoric ferns grew among tens of railway tracks surmounted by brilliant arc lights where birds nested and sang in the dead of night, because for them, it was day.

English Philosopher

Diane Ackerman

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

American Poet

Alan Huffman

Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and other epiphytes literally grow on trees.

American Author

John Sexton

I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns.

American Educator

Sue Hubbell

Greer is Missouri's second-largest spring. It is a place of pounding, frothing waters and of greeny-cool moss-covered rock, a place of fern and cliffy splendor.

Laurel Hubbard

I have always believed it is not enough just to wear the silver fern and I do not regret pushing myself to try to deliver my best possible performance.

Jack Dorsey

I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

American Businessman

Ferns will never bloom flowers, unlike many other plants.

No Flowers

Ferns are often kept indoors and can purify air, beneficial for homes and offices.

Indoor Plant

Ferns have ancient origins and were present when dinosaurs roamed, adding historical intrigue.

Prehistoric Context

 against rubbing against something in the course of the life of this animal we put a big tongue in here because in fact almost all dinosaurs have two big tongue bones that indicate they did have a loose and free tongue that was used for manipulating plant matter this was a dinosaur that was a this was a fern

Extreme Dinosaurs PIPE...

 that wind yes that was the happy encounter i saw the fern at its kind of playful energy and the second time it was deeper in the mountains in this spectacularly beautiful valley with waterfalls crashing down it as he was walking through these pine forests he

Anxious? Blame the...

 He looked me in the face and he said, "Take off your shoe and give me your machete." He walked over to a palm tree and carved off a fern, threw it in the fire, applied it to my foot, threw it in a pot of water, and had me drink the tea.

Mark Plotkin: What the...

 extraordinary is that it's not on dry land it's in the lake deep under water what we want to do is pick for a note and use her sounding ability and try to pinpoint it this isn't just a stunt it's serious work fern has been trained to

How Powerful Is a Dog's...

 world has been ruled by one group of giant reptiles for over 50 million years but these ancient creatures have had their day all over these lush fern prairies a grim evolutionary battle has broken out among the newer types of

Dinosaur Supremacy PIPE...

 community by filling it with native ferns and shrubs and wildflowers now imagine if we took plenty of these communities pack them into shipping containers and snuck them into times square in the middle of the night

Protecting New York...

 think as we go through this history it's important to pause fern for a moment and to remember why this has become such a contentious issue it's because some family planning programs resorted to

Let's put birth control...

 universe fortunately the thorns by the trees don't really affect the elephants and the inner parts of the elephant mouth is adapted to eat this kind of thorn trees ferns are nothing compared

Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...

 this is about three of us left in the firm still working and this is my life here after it earth as the saying goes fern on the world over touch touch will they will keep on that

Ballet Shoes: The Craft...

 back here in the Anthropocene the mist is thickening to drizzle the bedrock darkens deepening the contrast but shall we call this antique frond part fern