Word: botanist
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Thoreau orders Wild Fruits as a botanist might, collecting his notes on each plant in the order in which it blooms. He records the dates of his sightings and the measurements he has made: "September 24, 1859. The common shrub oak is apparently the most fertile of our oaks. I count two hundred sixty-six acorns on a branch just two feet long." But he has trouble keeping poetry out of his descriptions: "August 23, 1858. Abundantly shedding its downy seeds, wands of white and pink." And sometimes the objective mask slips completely: "July 30, 1860. Beautiful...
According to botanist and Lecturer on Environmental Science and Public Policy Glenn S. Adelson, most people can name more television shows than tree species...
Dunn focused on how her experience as a soccer mom and amateur botanist inspired her to believe firmly in smaller government. She smiled when she talked about her family and looked stern when talking about America's problems. I think she said some other stuff too, but I wasn't really listening...
...They have demonstrated that winning in baseball sometimes consists of perfect games and of grand-slam home runs, but more often of base stealing, of advancing runners in hit-and-run situations, of fouling off ball after ball until the pitcher gets careless, of studying the field like a botanist on every play, of watching and anticipating and thinking...
Though not a botanist by trade, Tom has learned much about dealing with flora (Part of this education has been supplied by Harvard, which boasts several books on marijuana-growing in its libraries). Tom's remaining 15 plants--he originally began with 50--were raised from four different types of seeds that he took from pot he bought: two types of sativa, one indica from West Virginia and one hybrid...