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Plants
«A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them»
Author: Carolus Linnaeus
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Botanist,
Zoologist)
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About:
Plants
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Keywords:
at a loss,
at first glance,
botanist,
botanists,
detects,
distinguish,
glance,
globe,
Globe and,
Marks,
quarters,
The Globe,
The Plant
«Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.»
«There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you go to someone's house for dinner. If there is a flower arrangement that is fake, it makes me think differently of that person.»
«A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes»
«Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(
Dramatist,
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Plants
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Keywords:
aromatic,
balmy,
bestow,
crush,
diffuse,
diffused,
diffuses,
diffusing,
fragrance,
spicy,
sweets,
trodden
«Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(
Lawyer,
Philosopher)
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About:
Ability,
Plants
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Keywords:
abilities,
at large,
bounded,
directions,
give forth,
natural ability,
plants,
prune,
pruned,
prunes,
pruning,
studies
«Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(
Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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About:
Plants
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Keywords:
bemoan,
bemoaned,
bemoaning,
grope,
groped,
grope for,
groping,
imperfect,
imprisonment,
rooted,
upward,
Vessels,
vigor