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windflower

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dj dense canopy

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"ornamental gardens became part of the mask worn by European princes and potentates... exotic plants, by their sheer strangeness and beauty, provided a kind of dignity behind which arbitrary power could hide"

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"one aspect of the political value of plants lay in their contribution to the aestheticization of power"

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"the Edenic miraculous view of Europe's place as a corner of Creation, as it was represented in the Renaissance hortus conclusus, gave way to the ideal of a Nature governed by rational mechanism, with Europe as the mistress of its laws"

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"but with the Enlightenment the humble knowledge of apothecaries became the pastime of the powerful"

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this bass plants trees, bumper sticker

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why do cars look like nail polish

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renaissance garden trend - a trough of water runs through the center of stone dinner table

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autumn ginko tree looses all of it's leaves at once, within a couple hours

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ginkgo trees planted from rooted branch never stop thinking they are branches

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writing a paper on a mythical renaissance villa 😑

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white poplar, a species with whitish underside of leaves, is recorded as providing shade for thieves who lurked habitually in the agora

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the drier side of the mountain, away from the prevailing wind, is called a rain shadow

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In effort to recycle tires, massive amounts of tiger mosquitos, who breed in tires, were transported w tires, now infest many coastal states

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temporary bog stage

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Wet meadow

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lichens are mutualistic relationships between algae or bacteria that photosynthesize and fungi that attach to the rock surface !!!

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it may take lichens 100 years to grow as large as a dinner plate

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we are living in the age of insects