Sejarah Poaceae (Volume 2)

The Story of Grasses – Grasslands and Grassy Open Ecosystems

What is an animal to a plant?

Flickering shadows. Phyllostachys edulis in Japan. By Kai Löhr from INaturalist.
Flickering shadows. Phyllostachys edulis in Japan. By Kai Löhr from INaturalist.

To most plants, animals are transient flickering shadows.
Sometimes bothersome, but mostly inconsequential.
With fast lives that flare up briefly under the sun,
and then are gone in the long floral passing of time.

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