It is a scenic drive: lotus ponds, bamboo groves, water buffalo, the familiar smell of rice blossoms.

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Think skimming over endless fields of purple water lilies and pink lotus blossoms, not bumping past acacia tress.

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They are the ornamentation motifs of flower, vine, flame, lotus petals, bamboo-shoot or water-buffalo teeth, used to decorate objects and architectural elements throughout Cambodia, and people have long drawn these motifs from the environment and social life - from the Angkorian period to today.

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His group first looked to nature for inspiration, using studies of the biochemistry of organisms that survive without water: 500-year-old Chinese lotus seeds, the hardy resurrection plant of the Sonoran desert and the microscopic tardigrade creature.

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