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The Universe is Always Singing
by Sarah Martha Baker The universe is always singing, And we must learn to listen, So that our heart may join the universal chorus. Notes: Today’s Unearthed Words are by Sarah Martha Baker, who was an English botanist and ecologist. Baker studied brown seaweeds and zonal patterns on the seashore.…
It is the Month of June
by Nathaniel Parker Willis It is the month of June, the month of leaves and roses. When pleasant sights salute the eyes, and pleasant scents the noses. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Nathaniel Parker Willis Related posts: Queen of the Garden…
This Compost
by Walt Whitman Now I am terrified at the earth! It is that calm and patient, It grows such sweet things out of such corruptions, It turns harmless and stainless on its axis, with such endless successions of diseased corpses, It distills such exquisite winds out of such infused fetor, It renews with such unwitting…
The Lilac Fairy
by Cicily Mary Barker White May is flowering, Red May beside Laburnum is showering Gold far and wide; But I sing of Lilac, The dearly-loved Lilac, Lilac, in Maytime A joy and a pride! I love her so much That I never can tell If she’s sweeter to look at, Or sweeter to smell. As…
I am Going to Sleep
by Alfonsina Storni Teeth of flowers, hairnet of dew, hands of herbs, you, perfect wet nurse, prepare the earthly sheets for me and the down quilt of weeded moss. I am going to sleep, my nurse, put me to bed. Set a lamp at my headboard; a constellation; whatever you like; all are good: lower…
Amaryllis
by Jennifer Ebeling Amaryllis is so sweet and fair, A name that’s true, beyond compare. Though Herbert made the genera split, He picked a name we’d soon forget So gauche, it starts with hippeasst, In the game of names, it comes in last Rather follow like sheep where Linnaeus led, Honoring a shepherdess who willing…
The Naming of Plants
by Linda Leinen The naming of plants? It really does matter. It isn’t correct to think all are the same. You may think at first I’m indulging in patter, but I tell you — a plant must have four different names! First comes the name that tells us its genus — Gaillardia, Solanum, Ilex or…
The Difference Between Humans and Animals
by Carl Linnaeus We have not the strength of the elephant, but our intelligence has tamed the strongest of them. We have not the speed of the hare, but our genius has learned to capture the speediest of them. We have not front feet to dig through the earth like the mole, but our minds…
Taxonomy
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Taxonomy is the best words in the best order. Note: Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the first to note the symmetry in taxonomy and poetry. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Related…
The Poet Naturalist
by August Strindberg Linnaeus was, in reality, a poet who happened to become a naturalist. As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. August Strindberg Related posts: Good Afternoon Hewett Cottrell Watson’s letter to Charles Darwin How Did it Happen That Their Lips Came…
A Garden to Walk In
by Victor Hugo A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in — what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars. Note: Today in 1885, Victor Hugo died, the author of the Hunchback of Notre-Dame as well as Les Miserables. A gardener,…
How Did it Happen That Their Lips Came Together
by Victor Hugo How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. Note: Today in…
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