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THE green leaf of the flowering plant is perhaps the most important structure in the world, since upon it in large measure depends the maintenance of life upon the earth's surface. While the law of entropy applies to all our surroundings, the green leaf is a part of Nature that perhaps more than any other is doing a little winding up in a cosmos that is mostly running down.
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SALISBURY, E. Leaf Form and Function*. Nature 163, 515–518 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163515a0
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