One important area for which little experimental evidence is available is the snowgrass country. There is a strong body of opinion that in the snowgrass the combined effects of fire and grazing have been responsible for deterioration in vegetative cover and stability. It seems likely that changes in the boundari~s between the snowgrass and fescue communiti~s have been due to, or aggravated by, ...

essential nature of states of the feelings. He adopts the Physiological thesis unreservedly; that is, that these states are Pfimary and independent of intelligence, are connected with ,A?l?gical conditions and are the direct expression of vegetative lfe, having their root in movements. . The plan of the work is well conceived; general manifesta1?r|s of feeling and especial emotions are studied ...

This essay employs a first-person fictional narrator to explore the nature of human-plant relations through the example of Thoreau’s Wild Apples and enacts the transformational process necessary to write in conjunction with non-conscious vegetal life by paying attention to the unthought known of the vegetative soul.

The criteria of vegetative state patients: (1) Being unable to move by oneself (2) Being unable to eat by oneself (3) Being in the state of incontinence (4) Eyes can follow the objects but cannot recognize them. (5) Being able to react to simple demands such as "clench the hand," "open the mouth," but they cannot make more com munication. (6) Having the ability of phonation, they can not utter ...