Emma Tennant

Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.

British Novelist

John Burnside

The Botanischer Garten in Berlin has one of Europe's finer winter trails, leading in careful order from glasshouses devoted to African-American and Australian desert species, through a fine collection of tropical plants, and on to the orchid house.

Scottish Writer

Lawrence Osborne

More than 700 years ago, the Song Dynasty artist Zheng Sixiao created perhaps the most beautiful image of orchids ever painted, 'Ink Orchid.' And still famous today is a thousand-year-old poem from the Tang Dynasty called 'Orchid and Orange.

Maria Bamford

I am a wild orchid of comedy, so I can only do well under specific conditions... There are people who I think can do any room, and do stadiums and thousand-seat theaters, and then there are people like me who just perform for my parents.

American Comedian

Juliet Mills

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

British Actor

Magdi Yacoub

If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

Egyptian Scientist

Morten Harket

I do love beauty. I love beautiful tilings. I grow orchids and collect butterflies. But when it comes to relationships, you have to find the person inside.

Norwegian Musician

Michael Douglas

Like a lovely orchid, or anything else that's nurtured, marriage prospers and grows, but if it's ignored, it withers.

American Actor

Beau Bridges

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

Stephen Moyer

I love - oh God, I shouldn't say this - I'm really good at bringing orchids back from the dead.

English Actor

Orchids are common gifts symbolizing luxury and exotic beauty, suitable for special occasions.

Floral Gift

Orchids are popular in floral arrangements and decor, especially at weddings and upscale events.

Decorative Use

Botanists and plant enthusiasts value orchids for their biodiversity and ecological significance.

Botanical Interest

 stages in an animal's life so we wanted to capture the moment an animal was actually born praying mantises are predatory insects they're very engaging because the way they turn their heads there's something about their eyes it makes you feel like they're following you but of all the mantas i think the orchid mountains are

Filming the Kung Fu...

 certain certain moments where you know you just know that they feel so much that we know that we can't explain it's like looking at whales like orchids dolphins or larger whales we just don't know what they think what their concept of life is we don't understand that

Borneo: Paradise Under...

 Even some plants use there are orchids that look and smell like female wasps to attract hapless males, who end up pollinating the plant. Some of these animals benefit by having fixed characteristics that are evolutionary suited to their environments.

The sneakiest tricksters...

 lead to new things like giraffes, or orchids -- so too, do little embellishments in the crochet code lead to new and wondrous creatures in the evolutionary tree of crochet life. So this project really has taken on this inner organic life of its own.

Margaret Wertheim: The...

 orchids mimic the precise scent of a single insect species. This is possible because many insects and flowers produce simple organic compounds called hydrocarbons, which form a layer that protects their bodies from drying out.

The sexual deception of...

 growing rare recently discovered those are the hot items so all the plant collectors really want to have those plants they may or may not think very carefully about where they came from things like orchids and cacti and

Confiscated Plants Get...

 went out in the swamp for weeks at a time and stood on a ladder aiming an infrared video camera had a ghost orchid patrolling different flowers hoping something would come it was so frustrating for so long that I was

Rare Ghost Orchid Has...

 species busy thinks the mimicking orcas are trying to attract a particular fly which helps the plants pollinate these flies usually attracted to the mushrooms help spread the orchids pollen there by

Orchids "Pretend" to be...

 -- there's a huge community of people in the world who are practical biologists, who are dog breeders, pigeon breeders, orchid breeders, rose breeders, people who handle biology with their hands,

Freeman Dyson: Let's...

 We can give things a personality. So in this particular example, the orchid can communicate to you through images and sounds.