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Clouds
What would our earth be like without clouds? For one thing, we would be deprived of a great deal of beauty. Clouds add pleasing variety to our skies, and sometimes at sunrises and sunsets they form fantastically beautiful tapestries in the air. But this is merely the least thing that clouds do for mankind. Of […]
How High Is Up?
How high is “up?” When you look up into the night sky and see countless twinkling lights, what are you looking at? In one sense, with your unaided eyes, you are seeing the same sky – though perhaps a different portion – that the patriarch Abraham observed in his nighttime vigils. He could have counted, […]
Killer Trees
Lions and tigers and bears – and other animal predators – aren’t the only killers in nature. Some plants also make their living by killing. One of the most unusual of these is the Strangler Fig, which grows in tropical forests. Its uniqueness is apparent even from infancy. For example, Strangler Figs almost never start […]
Grass
Those wonderful grasses! What in the world would we do without them? The family of grasses can easily qualify as royalty in the kingdom of plants, for they are the most useful and needful to man of all the plants on earth. We think of wheat, from which bread – the staff of life – […]
Palm Trees
What is that can be made into “millionaire’s salad” at one end, and into toothbrushes at the other? While you are pondering that question, let us add that almost everything in between the ends is also useful to man. What is it? It is the palm tree – or rather the family of palm trees, […]
Auxin (How Plants Grow)
Have you ever wondered why plants grow upwards instead of sideways? Or thought about why roots grow down? These are constants of nature, but why are they so? Plant scientists have discovered part of the answer, and it is a plant hormone. (Of course, they first had to discover that plants had hormones, just as […]
Pine Tree Parents
It is the nature of all living things to reproduce themselves, to produce the next generation of their kind. But when trees in dense forests try to do so, they often encounter a serious problem: There is no place for their offspring to grow. Even though there may be room enough and to spare on […]
Rhinoceros
The Black Rhinoceros of Africa not only looks somewhat like an animated army tank, he frequently acts like one. His massive body is covered with a very thick skin, suggestive of armor plate, and he is armed with two great horns, the larger of which may extend more than four feet. With this horn the […]
Cockroaches and Cows
What could cows and cockroaches possibly have in common? Cows are large animals which provide man with milk and meat and hides, while roaches are squalid insects which do not provide man with anything, except perhaps to serve as objects of his hatred. But different as they are, cockroaches and cows do share one important […]
Mallee Fowl
What is it that looks like a turkey, and works like a horse? Actually, nothing exactly matches those qualifications, but the Mallee Fowl of Australia comes close. It is only the male of species that works so strenuously, though his mate also labors in her own way. The cock Mallee puts in up to eleven […]