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Botany and Plant Ecology > Why study botany - a poetic perspective.

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message 1: by Melissa (last edited Oct 25, 2010 04:05PM) (new)

Melissa (mjkirkland) I was compelled to share this with you!

Botany - Berton Braley
Science News Letter
March 9, 1929


There should be no monotony
In studying your botany;
It helps to train
And spur the brain--
Unless you haven't gotany.

It teaches you, does Botany,
To know the plants and spotany,
And learn just why
They live or die--
In case you plant or potany.

You learn, from reading Botany,
Of wooly plants and cottony
That grow on earth,
And what they're worth,
And why some spots have notany.

You sketch the plants in Botany,
You learn to chart and plotany
Like corn or oats--
You jot down notes,
If you know how to jotany.

Your time, if you'll allotany,
Will teach you how and what any
Old plant or tree
Can do or be--
And that's the use of Botany!

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message 2: by Sandra (new)

Sandra (slortiz) | 60 comments Wonderful! I loved it. Remember Ogden Nash (or are you too young for that--he wrote the golden trashery of ogden nashery) Made me wonder what you could do with other subjects? How about Cosmology?


message 3: by Melissa (last edited Oct 26, 2010 06:42PM) (new)

Melissa (mjkirkland) No, I'm not too young to know of Ogden Nash. . .wish I could say I am.


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