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Botany
The scientific study of plants.
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...the Vegetable World has a higher significance than either the education of man's intellect, or even the maintenance of animal life. With its sweet influences, man's heart, —his moral nature, is in intimate communion; and through them, God reveals himself to the soul in his most endearing attributes. By the teachings of the Vegetable World the tone of our moral being is affected in no small degree, and flowers are often interwoven with the web of human destiny. In a word, the heart of man is s
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― Poetry Of The Vegetable World: A Popular Exposition Of The Science Of Botany, And Its Relations To Man
― Poetry Of The Vegetable World: A Popular Exposition Of The Science Of Botany, And Its Relations To Man
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The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive
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― Beauty: The Value of Values
― Beauty: The Value of Values
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