Word: botanist
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...illustrated popular versions of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden and Clement C. Moore's The Night Before Christmas, establishing her whimsical style for a generation of young readers. Her animals appear perky and knowing, the children scrappy and game. She showed a botanist's eye for detail in the elaborate floral borders framing her poems and stories...
...There are millions of acres of wild places, from tall grass prairies to mangrove swamps to alpine forests, that have been saved thanks to the Nature Conservancy. Botanist Richard Goodwin was one of the founders of the Conservancy in 1951, and he fervently believed that environmental protection begins at home. Goodwin donated the farmland he lived on in Connecticut and constantly pushed to expand the group's preservation efforts. So far, the Conservancy has protected well over 100 million acres (40 million hectares) in the U.S. and nearly 30 other countries...
...Barker is a sort of Sherlock Holmes on steroids: in addition to possessing a strange omniscience, he is in peak physical condition and can defeat even the most formidable of adversaries in hand-to-hand combat (or, as is inexplicably the case here, stick fighting). He is also a botanist with an Edenic garden, a man with connections of every sort in several nations, and the inventor of a bulletproof lead coat—in 1884. He is never required to outrun a speeding bullet or stop the passage of time, but it wouldn’t exactly come...
...habitually avoided looking at all sorts of things other people noticed ? [while] ordering his eyes and ears to retain forever what to others seemed puerile." He studied people with unnerving curiosity. "Fashionable society mattered to him," a friend recorded, "but in the manner that flowers matter to a botanist, not in the way that flowers matter to a man who buys a bouquet." Proust was equally interested in less fashionable society. He had an intense relationship with his married chauffeur and invested in a male brothel. In fact, the shock of Sodom and Gomorrah was not just its homosexuality...
...never stop in such a place as this." Climbing in the heat through one windless gully after another, pushing through prickly scrub amid leeches, flies and furious ants, sweaty and smeared with charcoal from burned trees, it's understandable why he spent little time on poetry. But the avid botanist noticed the strange and beautiful flora he was passing and collected several new and rare species...