But rather cheerlessly, those at the top of the wealth tree don't seem to enjoy their money much.
The hysteria is based on a distorted view of what constitutes a middle-income earner – the reports seem to think it's someone with a £1m house on more than £100,000 a year, when a person in that category would actually be in a tiny minority, right at the top of the income and wealth tree.
Beautiful Blooms Gardens were the passion of Pierre S. du Pont, who purchased the original 202 acres of what is now Longwood Gardens, then known as Peirce's Park, in 1906 in order to preserve its wealth of trees.
Its compact size belies the wealth of birds, trees, insects, fungi and other creatures that shelter in its nooks and crannies.
Ever since Roger Ulrich discovered in 1984 that hospital patients appear to recover more quickly from surgery in rooms with green views, a growing body of scientific evidence has demonstrated the health – and wealth – benefits of trees in cities.
Lineage trees encapsulate a wealth of information regarding the development and maintenance of the various subsystems of these organisms under physiological and pathological conditions.
These analyses are necessary because lineage trees encapsulate a wealth of information, yet most of this information is not self-evident.
In addition to its beautiful illustrations, The Great Kapok Tree includes a wealth of easily accessible information about the animals living in the rain forest and the ecology of this very special region.
Beyond failures based on unreasonable assumptions and oversimplistic paradigms, the wealth of information encoded in phylogenetic trees is there to be deciphered.
Above about 6,500 feet (2,000 metres), cloud or moss forest characterized by conifers, tree ferns, and a wealth of fungi and epiphytes (such as mosses and orchids) appears.
