plants

If you want to find out how old someone is, but don't want to sound rude, just ask them, "If you were a tree, how many rings would you have?"

Uses for trees and other plants are as varied as they are diverse. The cultivation of plants is part of agriculture, which serves as the basis of our civilization. Plants are used for most food stuffs, especially rice, wheat, and corn. Other food staples are potatoes, fruits, and nuts. Drinks produced from plants include coffee and tea.

But the nonfood products produced by plants are equally as important. Where would our world be without wood or cotton? Or how would our world be affected if we didn't have renewable fuels such as firewood, peat, pellets, and bio fuels? Coal and petroleum are fossil fuels derived from plants. Aspirin is a medicine derived from plants. Pesticides, drugs, poisons, soap, paints, waxes, shampoos, plastic, perfumes, chewing gum, and almost anything else you can imagine is derived from plants.

Our world would not exist today if it were not for trees and other plants with which we co-exist on this planet.

Bloggers speaking about plants can be found at sites like growingwithplants and memphiszoo.

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• U.S. electricity, brought to you from... the Soviet Union

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 665
  Filed under: Russia Theres perhaps no better example of how much the world has changed since the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago and the end of the Cold Ware shortly thereafter, than the following: an American flips a switch to turn on a light in his or her home and the power came from where? The Soviet ...
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• Renault-Nissan vows to build worlds cheapest car? Nano-nah-nah-nah-nah!

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 787
  Filed under: Budget , Plants/Manufacturing , Nissan , Renault , India , Tata Tata Nano - Click above for high-res image gallery The other day we alerted you to the "fact" that Ford will be releasing a brand new $650 car . But as does everything that sounds too good to be true, the car in question was ...
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• In The Night Garden

  
  India Garden — Authority: 108
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• VIDEO: Coal ash dumping may have caused deformities

  
  The Conservation Report — Authority: 486
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• Different Color Lawn

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 158
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• Western Refining Idles Bloomfield Plant (NM)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
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• Fantastic Peapods T-Shirts and Gifts

  
  Toxiferous Designs — Authority: 474
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• JR Farm Hay Tunnel - Length 30 cm ? 20 cm

  
  Pet Treats and Toys UK . com — Authority: 161
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• How To Work With Organic Gardening

  
  Gardening Seeds Guide — Authority: 441
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• EPA intervenes on video by two employees

  
  Alan Gregory's Conservation News — Authority: 124
  An interesting, and timely, sidelight exposed in this article from today’s Science section of the NY Times .
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• JR Farm Hay Tunnel - Length 25 cm ? 13.5 cm

  
  Pet Treats and Toys UK . com — Authority: 161
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• Celebrating the fleeting fall: Kiku (Japanese for Chrysanthemum) at the NYBG

  
  Studio G - Garden Design & Landscape Design inspiration — Authority: 129
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• Britain eyes 10 new nuclear plants

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
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• Verbena ‘Strawberry Kiss’: New for 2010

  
  Graham Rice's New Plants Blog — Authority: 114
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• Prime Minister: Kenya Plans Nuclear Plant In Next Five Years

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 531
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• REPORT: VW takes over #1 carmaker slot, sings "Wir sind die Meister, mein Freund"

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 787
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• Lies About Marijuana Drive People to a Much More Harmful Drug -- Booze

  
  Our Beloved Earth — Authority: 129
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• Budding Opportunities

  
  Outside My Window — Authority: 125
  I thought I’d missed my chance when I didn’t write about this plant on Halloween – more on that later – but Chuck Tague’s recent blog on tree buds gives me the perfect opportunity to discuss this scary looking plant.  Compared to the beautiful twigs Chuck photographed this one looks positively wicked.  ...
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• Plant Fallen

  
  Crossmark Design Photo Blog — Authority: 123
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