They say that ferns can have flowers.

Ostriches can't fly.

I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

The Association of Family Planning and Reproductive Health (known as The Flower of Fern ) offered lectures for young people on healthy lifestyles and reproductive health.

Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.

And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

For this I will lament and wail I will go stripped and naked I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.

But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

The animals of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

A fern deep in the forest could, for example, one day prove helpful in the fight against HIV AIDS.

Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein and it shall be no more inhabited forever neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation.

Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein and it shall be no more inhabited for ever neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

And all of a sudden, you lose sight of the ground, and you also lose sight of the sky, and you're in a three dimensional labyrinth in the air filled with hanging gardens of ferns growing out of soil, which is populated with all kinds of small organisms.

The results of both the 2000 Flower of Fern campaign and a UNDP study had indicated that the vast majority of men did not recognize any personal responsibility in family planning, and the Government was aware that such an attitude had to be changed through education.

In Thebes, Egypt, the tomb of Haremhab, built about 1420 BCE, shows a depiction of a man carrying bowls of ostrich eggs and other large eggs, presumably those of the pelican, as offerings.

These include complex tools (which require several stages of manufacture), symbolism (for example, red hematite pigments for notation and beads for display, made from sea shells and ostrich eggshells), and long distance networks of contact and exchange.