Occasionally the plaintive note of a white tufted tyrant flycatcher may be heard, concealed neat the summit of the most lofty trees, and more rarely the loud strange cry of a black woodpecker with a fine scarlet crest on its head (this being worn by adult males only) June, 1834 Journal entry – Charles Darwin […]
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In return the Indians would receive two glass beads for every loaf of cassava bread they supplied; two lace points for two hutia, the large rodents Christopher’s crew had eaten on Colba during his second voyage; maize, or other items they supplied. –Christopher Columbus Across the Ocean, Janet and Geoff Benge. This is one of
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Science and art should be mutual pathways to understanding: We need something to confront sensually, something about which to feel, in order to place value on nature; we need the opportunity to interpret, to reflect on our own experiences and those of others in the context of new details and new perspectives. –Dr. Harry W. Greene;
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….in the same part of the country there is also another growth which resembles the white maple in its appearance, only that it is by no means so large; seldom being more than from 6 to 9 inches in diameter, and from 15 to 20 feet high; they frequently grow in clusters as if from
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cold raining night the geese are yet in large flocks and do not yetappear to have mated. what I have heretofore termed the broadleafed ash is now in blume. the fringetree has cast the corollaand it’s leaves have nearly obtained their full size. the sac a com-mis is in blume.. Meriwether Lewis, April
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