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...Yet in the fantastical “The Victoria Water Lilly”, flora and fauna provide a safe space for two 16-year-old girls, who make love in the cloakroom of the Natural History Museum next to Brunnsviken lake, and...
...Her myriad polkadot patterns, giant trippy gourds and triffid-esque flora embody her struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and hallucinations, following childhood trauma....
...The original safari Big Five was compiled to note how dangerous the lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino were to hunters....
...twill hat, £175 Seedball Bee Mix seedballs, £6, animalaidshop.org.uk Givenchy cotton cargo trousers, £1,225 Isabel Marant raffia Bayia bucket bag, £455, net-a-porter.com Porcelain Superstore Lisbon Flora...
...The bug, named in the 1930s in homage to the then German Führer, is sought after by Nazi memorabilia hunters and therefore under threat....
...Even when not surrounded by friendly flora, Shettar, I suspect, is usually at ease in her skin....
...Although we may never discover when the first hunter-gatherer baked bread, we do know that they were making bread at least 14,000 years ago....
...A former big-game hunter, Beard promoted the value of culling elephant populations as a way of avoiding such tragedies....
...It’s an appropriately folkloric venue for an artist who embroiders her avant-garde music with themes of flora and fauna....
...Accompanied by a trudging, hypnotic thrum of guitars and drums, Dawson sings of the Australian botanist Isabel Clifton Cookson, after whom this extinct flora is named....
...Devising a similarly sophisticated menu from Greenland’s more varied flora and fauna took a lot of research and development, says Ziska....
...The relatively high prices they command make them an almost irresistible target for hunters in countries with few job opportunities....
...Some north and eastern European nations are mycophiles with thousands of amateur mushroom hunters taking to the forest at weekends and cheerfully feeding their haul to their families....
...Orchids were sought by plant hunters to be cultivated in hothouses as emblems of wealth....
...In 1772, George III even hired a dedicated plant hunter to bring back special specimens....
...The previous flora then began to reappear from seeds that had been lying buried under the bamboo’s stems....
...If eco-credentials top your list, look no further than Stella McCartney’s collaboration with Hunter Originals (above) — another of Net-a-Porter’s top-sellers....
...Its landscapes, flora and fauna span the staggering biodiversity of a country that contains “every natural habitat to be found on earth”....
...Imagery designed by the artist Tobias Gremmler was projected onto diaphanous screens, showing animated tendrils and flowers and representations of Björk herself, merging into the flora....
...“I remember him knee-deep in drawings in his room while he worked on the illustrations for Hunter S Thompson’s novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” Hers was a unique kind of literary bohemia....
...“Growing up in Africa, I was surrounded by tribal traditions — objects worn around the ankles to ward away bad energy, for hunters and explorers alike.”...
...Sometimes hunters cast nets over whole flocks. ZSL is working with authorities in Cameroon to try to halt smuggling, intervening at all levels of the supply chain....
...While Victorian advice books such as the 1823 Flora Domestica expounded the benefits of having a woman or small boy around to pick the insects off your plants (small hands), expertise has improved....
...The Joshua tree in the Californian desert that was photographed for the artwork of U2’s The Joshua Tree album was a famous piece of vegetation, a superstar among flora....
...Think of a famous plant hunter associated with botanising in China, and names such as Robert Fortune, Ernest Wilson or George Forrest might come to mind....
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