plant-building

Updated: June 18, 2025

Then one species after another comes into flower, gradually overspreading the green with yellow and purple, which lasts until May. The "rainy season" is by no means a gloomy, soggy period of constant cloudiness and rain. Perhaps nowhere else in North America, perhaps in the world, are the months of December, January, February, and March so full of bland, plant-building sunshine.

John Muir - The Mountains of California

There were many homes, he knew where art was beginning to be assembled. He must begin, too. Cowperwood, once the franchises had been secured, had installed Sippens in his own office, giving him charge for the time being. Small rented offices and clerks were maintained in the region where practical plant-building was going on.

Theodore Dreiser - The Titan