Posts Tagged ‘Louis Agassiz’
From Swiss Peaks to American Peat: The Remarkable Journey of Leo Lesquereux
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. November 18, 1806 On this day, the world welcomed Charles Leo Lesquereux, a Swiss botanist whose life would unfold like a rare and resilient flower, facing adversity yet blooming in the most unexpected…
Read MoreRalph Waldo Emerson: The Transcendentalist Who Found Nature’s Language
“Intellectual Declaration of Independence” May 25, 1803 Today is the birthday of the American transcendentalist, essayist, philosopher, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a son of Boston. By the time he finished his schooling at Harvard, he had decided to go by his middle name, Waldo. He was his class poet, and…
Read MoreThe Deaf Botanist Who Mastered Mosses: Charles Leo Lesquereux
Living with Nature November 18, 1806 Today is the birthday of a son of Switzerland, Charles Leo Lesquereux, (“le crew”), who was born on this day in 1806. Leo was born with a naturalist’s heart. A self-described dreamer, Leo loved to go out into the forest, and he collected all kinds of flowers and…
Read MoreCharles Leo Lesquereux: Deaf Bryologist and Pioneer of Paleobotany
The Botanist Born With a Naturalist’s Heart Today is the birthday of a son of Switzerland, Charles Leo Lesquereux, (pronounced “le crew”), who was born on this day in 1806. Leo was born with a naturalist’s heart. A self-described dreamer, Leo loved to go out into the forest, and he collected all kinds of flowers…
Read MoreElizabeth Agassiz: The Garden Lover Behind Radcliffe’s Founding and Louis Agassiz’s Biography
The Life of Agassiz On this day in 1877, Elizabeth Agassiz, the wife of the naturalist and famous Harvard Professor Louis Agassiz, met with Longfellow to get his opinion on the first couple of chapters of the Life of Agassiz; her biography of her husband. In Louise Hall Tharp’s book about the family, a memory…
Read MoreA Life Among Giants: Joseph Trimble Rothrock and His Beloved Trees
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. April 9, 1839 On this day, Joseph Trimble Rothrock made his entrance into the world—a man destined to transform from a sickly child into the formidable “Father of Forestry.” The irony, dear readers,…
Read MoreApril 9, 2019 Phebe Lankester, James Sowerby, Joseph Trimble Rothrock, Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, Gardeners Question Time, Charles Baudelaire, Katie Daisy, the Toronto Archives, and Joseph Sauriol
Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter | Daily Gardener Community Monologue Today’s thought is precisely that: How we think when we garden. Emerson wrote: Blame me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I brought; Every aster…
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