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11-08-2009, 11:47 AM
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Good read on power of naming plants and animals
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/science/11naming.html?8dpc Weird and wonderful world! Bill -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA |
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11-08-2009, 05:23 PM
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Good read on power of naming plants and animals
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Bill who putters wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/science/11naming.html?8dpc Thanks Bill. Good read. I try to identify my weeds, before I pull them up. Some of them (Dead Nettle, Sow Thistle, Urtica urens, Epilobium parviflorum) are now encouraged in my garden. -- Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.* ~Channing E. Phillips http://tinyurl.com/o63ruj http://countercurrents.org/roberts020709.htm |
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11-08-2009, 07:27 PM
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Good read on power of naming plants and animals
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, Billy wrote: In article , Bill who putters wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/science/11naming.html?8dpc Thanks Bill. Good read. I try to identify my weeds, before I pull them up. Some of them (Dead Nettle, Sow Thistle, Urtica urens, Epilobium parviflorum) are now encouraged in my garden. What blew me away was the mention of some 4 year olds that can name and identify 100 different plants in South America . Reminds me of old info I read years ago about how many different types of snow Eskimo name. Make me feel very ignorant a good thing. Bill -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA |
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11-08-2009, 09:18 PM
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Good read on power of naming plants and animals
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Bill who putters wrote: In article , Billy wrote: In article , Bill who putters wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/science/11naming.html?8dpc Thanks Bill. Good read. I try to identify my weeds, before I pull them up. Some of them (Dead Nettle, Sow Thistle, Urtica urens, Epilobium parviflorum) are now encouraged in my garden. What blew me away was the mention of some 4 year olds that can name and identify 100 different plants in South America . Reminds me of old info I read years ago about how many different types of snow Eskimo name. Make me feel very ignorant a good thing. Bill Or names for green in Japan, names for camels in Arabic, or names of coffee in Italy. -- Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.* ~Channing E. Phillips http://tinyurl.com/o63ruj http://countercurrents.org/roberts020709.htm |
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