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These things which, even in their time of beauty, are not enough for a man's soul have all but a time to be beautiful in, and then they fade and die. A great botanist made what he called 'a floral clock' to mark the hours of the day by the opening and closing of flowers. It was a graceful and yet a pathetic thought.
"One fine morning you go for a saunter in Paris. It is past two, but five has not yet struck. You see a woman coming towards you; your first glance at her is like the preface to a good book, it leads you to expect a world of elegance and refinement. Like a botanist over hill and dale in his pursuit of plants, among the vulgarities of Paris life you have at last found a rare flower.
"She was the wife of a botanist from some Eastern college and him and her rode a good bit and dressed just alike in khaki things. My, the infamies that was intimated about that poor creature!
"What stands out in my memory now is this idea, of a sort of woman goddess who was very lovely and kind and powerful and wonderful. That ruled my secret imaginations as a boy, but it was very much in my mind as I grew up." "The mother complex," said Dr. Martineau as a passing botanist might recognize and name a flower. Sir Richmond stared at him for a moment.
Half an hour for the enjoyment of a pleasure that cost her, yearly, a moderate fortune! On their way through the foyer to the box, Deena ventured to disclaim for her husband a peculiar interest in fossils. "My husband is a botanist," she began, and then desisted when she saw her companion's attention was barely held by a desire to be civil. "Ah, indeed!" Mrs. Star vaguely responded.
Alexander von Humboldt, who ruled the world with his scientific as Napoleon with his eagle glance, attained the highest repute among travellers of every nation. Krusenstern, Langsdorf, and Kotzebue, Germans in the service of Russia, circumnavigated the globe. Meyen, the noted botanist, did the same in a Prussian ship. Baron von Huegel explored India. Guetzlaff acted as a missionary in China.
A young botanist in Kansas has just announced his purpose to cross the milkweed and the strawberry, so that hereafter strawberries and cream may grow upon the same bush.
Close to the track they were following were seen four men busily engaged in making arrangements to encamp for the night. It need scarcely be said that these were our friends Paul Bevan, Fred Westly, Flinders, and the botanist.
Oh, strange, illogical country, land of paradoxes and anomalies, if ever there was one on earth the learned botanist Grimard was right when he said, 'There is that Australia, a sort of parody, or rather a defiance of universal laws in the face of the rest of the world." Paganel's tirade was poured forth in the most impetuous manner, and seemed as if it were never coming to an end.
The stately dahlia after Andrew Dahl, the Swedish botanist. But, without enumerating further instances, for they are familiar to most readers, it may be noticed that plants which embody the names of animals are very numerous indeed.
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