Posts Tagged ‘Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps’
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps: The Botanist Who Inspired Emily Dickinson and Taught Mindfulness Through Nature
Amherst Academy Teacher Today is the birthday of Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps. Almira wrote about nature, and her textbook, Familiar Lectures on Botany, was first published in 1829. Almira taught at Amherst Academy, and her textbook was undoubtedly known and used by Emily Dickinson, who was a student there. The following quotes show us that…
Read MoreJuly 15, 2020 Climate-Change-Ready Trees, St. Swithin’s Day, Inigo Jones, John Wilson, Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, Niagra Falls, Insect Poetry, How to Cheat at Gardening and Yard Work by Jeff Bredenberg, and William Robinson
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Curated News New research pinpoints which of the world’s trees are climate change-ready | The Global Plant Council “Botanists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered that “penny-pinching”…
Read MoreHow Often Are the Beauties
by Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare. Note:…
Read MoreEach Opening Bud
By Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps Each opening bud, And care-perfected seed, Is as a page, Where we may read of God. Note: Almira wrote about nature, and her textbook, Familiar Lectures on Botany, was first published in 1829. Almira taught at Amherst Academy, and her textbook was undoubtedly known and used by Emily…
Read MoreOrdinary Changes of Nature
by Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps So, in the physical world mankind is prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded. Notes: Almira wrote about nature, and her textbook, Familiar Lectures on Botany, was first published in 1829. Almira…
Read MoreNature’s Ordinary Wonders: Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps on Mindful Botany
Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, a prominent 19th-century American educator and author. She is known for her significant contributions to women’s education…
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