Posts Tagged ‘Healing’
Dr. Oliver Sacks on the Power of Visiting Gardens: Places to Find History, Lessons, and Healing
“The garden has affected me and does affect me in various ways; it’s not just the pleasure of walking around but [also] the very special virtues of the library and the museum and the fact that, in some ways, this is a university as well as a garden.” September 19, 2019 I recently had the…
Read MoreBotanist Edwin Hunt and the Hungarian Revolutionary Lajos Kossuth: Finding Comfort in Nature
“Happy those who love nature, Her they shall find, And shall not find but her in the days of adversity.” June 17, 1869 On this day, the botanist Edwin Hunt collected the last known specimen of Arethusa bulbosa in the old Oriskany swamp in New York. While researching Edwin Hunt, I found an article…
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