We have since learned - rather, relearned - that urban life thrives on streets and sidewalks.

Yet life thrives, as it has for thousands of years, among the Joshua trees and juniper.

Most life on Earth, some ventured, thrived invisibly in dark ecosystems.

Yet even in January, cultural life here thrives, at museums, theaters and music halls.

He knew that life could not thrive in those conditions down on that dark and fiery planet.

There's very little water, but not much less than deserts where life now thrives.

Can you see that life is thriving here?

And where there is heat and liquid water, scientists point out, life in some form might thrive.

This is, of course, an abbreviated list and doesn't even touch sites that mark where Jewish life once thrived.

Cultural life also thrived, with many choral and other artistic societies.