Anthony Head

One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently.

English Actor

Rohini Nilekani

At a physical level, India is blessed with a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna. We have a predictable monsoon, and a vast network of rivers and water bodies. We have one of the longest coastlines. We have enormous access to solar energy.

Indian Writer

Ben Fogle

The jungle is my least favourite environment. It's always damp, and everything tries to bite you, whether it's flora or fauna. But I think it's important to face your fears and not just go for the comfortable option.

English Writer

David Grann

You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing.

American Journalist

Gregory Benford

Like the ocean, land plants hold about three times as much carbon as the atmosphere. While oceans take many centuries to exchange this mass with the air, flora take only a few years.

American Physicist

Albert II, Prince of Monaco

My mother loved to take us on walks in the mountains or the hills and she would point out different species that she identified, both fauna and flora.

Monacan Royalty

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

Jacqueline Bisset

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

English Actress

Henry David Thoreau

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

American Author

Anand Mahindra

It is imperative for us to protect the flora and fauna around us.

Indian Businessman

The term 'flora' refers specifically to plants in a given ecosystem, not animals or non-living things.

Ecosystem Specific

'Flora' reflects the plants present during a specific time, which might vary from the past.

Temporal Variation

The word 'flora' can refer to both native and invasive plant species in an area.

Non-Native Species

In medical contexts, 'flora' refers to bacteria in the human body that are usually beneficial.

Health-Related

'Flora' in the body is about balance; too much or too little can cause health issues.

Balance is Key

'Flora' in a medical sense includes microorganisms that can't be seen with the naked eye.

Microscopic World

As a book detailing plants, 'flora' is often used in academic or scientific research.

Botanical Studies

'Flora' as a publication is a reference for identifying plants, not a casual read.

Reference Tool

A 'flora' focuses on plant species from a particular geographic region.

Regionally Specific

 means you can go see another world, another universe, completely magical. You can see little fish, seaweed, the flora and fauna, you can watch it all discreetly, sliding underwater, looking around, and coming back to the surface, leaving no trace. It's an amazing feeling to become one with nature like that.

The Exhilarating Peace...

 These low-maintenance flora and fauna don’t need to be fed at all. In fact, they naturally improve water quality, filtering it as they feed off of sunlight and nutrients in the seawater. By absorbing carbon through photosynthesis, these farms help battle climate change, and reduce local ocean acidification

Underwater farms vs....

 At best, you might lose a few pounds on a cleanse, because you aren't eating much. At worst, you could go into starvation mode. You could throw off your electrolyte balance, not to mention disrupt your intestinal flora and bowel function. Clearly, having a healthy liver is extremely important.

A cleanse won't detox...

 The researchers hypothesized that the pregnant ewes had snacked on poisonous birth defect-causing plants. They collected the local flora and fed samples to lab rats, but struggled to replicate the effect. So they decided to directly observe the sheep

The strange case of the...

 on them are also in danger invasive species are now the number one threat to Australia's native wildlife they have already contributed to the extinction of more than a hundred indigenous species of flora and fauna it's hard to predict

Nature's Oddest Looking...

Giant Cassowaries are...

 than there is in all of the world's vegetation, including the lush tropical rainforests and the giant sequoias, the expansive grasslands, all of the cultivated systems, and every kind of flora you can imagine on the face of the earth,

A climate change...

 hardscapes and humans are flora and fauna and our own well-being depends on it for the first time in human history the world is now an urban place so more people live in cities than they do in rural areas

Protecting New York...

 surveying and this man here was local shaman said he has a tiger that come to visit him and he taught local people with the conservation organization flora and fauna and international use hunters and

Steve Winter: On the...

 like corn and rats. But it's a world that's not as resilient as the one it replaces. As the fossil record shows, it's a diversity of plants and animals that allows unique pairings of flora and fauna