Vegetal

But even the most spiritual life has its temptations. The extravagant fever of industrialism and intellectualism had so subtly poisoned the plant-men that when at last they rebelled against it they swung too far, falling into the snare of a vegetal life as one-sided as the old animal life had been. Little by little they gave less and less energy and time to "animal" pursuits, until at last their nights as well as their days were spent wholly as trees, and the active, exploring, manipulating, animal intelligence died in them forever.

Red is, indeed, the chief element of beauty in floral nature, the prime ornament of the green garb of the vegetal kingdom.

Which although it be denominated from men, and most evident in them, yet it extends and shows itself in vegetal and sensible creatures […].

The landscape of vegetal life is weird—no forests, no meadows, no green hills, no foliage, but clublike stems of plants armed with stilettos.

The Computer Center is muffled and dim, warm with whiffs of sourness, of body odor, and of the vegetal smells of dirt embedded in clothes that were advancing in the direction of compost.

This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.