The survival of an oasis amid miles of concrete and steel is threatened by animals that make it their home.
He uses imagery-based descriptions of the flowers that sprung up untended, and the New Yorkers' reaction to them, creating a reflective tone.
It compares the city to an animal, which has a hard, protective shell, but a soft underbelly.
August Weisman was was a German biologist. He came up with the germ plasma theory, which states that the body is divided in germ cells, which can transmit information dealing with DNA, and somatic cells, which cannot.
He uses the phrase "implacable invaders" to reveal his disdain for the Chinese ailanthus trees because of their destructiveness.
An insect nearly microscopic in size is responsible for felling a forest of conifers.
Salt and rust are corrosives that have damaging effects on a city's infrastructure.
It compares the frozen crystals to delicately lacy snowflakes having a paradoxical strength.
Richard Weisman's birth name is Richard Allen Weisman.
Hilary Weisman Graham's birth name is Hilary Weisman.
Alan Weisman was born in 1947.
Joel Weisman was born in 1943.
Adam Weisman is 5' 6".
Eli Weisman is 5' 10".
Lauren Weisman is 5' 3".
Joel Weisman died in 2009.
Marguerite Weisman goes by Meg.
Joseph Nathan Weisman is 6'.
Jacob Weisman was born on 1965-02-23.
Kevin Weisman was born on December 29, 1970.