Word: oakes
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...What type of tree would you be if that sort of thing happened in real life: An oak...
...What type of tree would you be if that sort of thing happened in real life: An oak because it's so strong...
...rumors abound about the credibility of GG's sources. "Damnit Guy, you're just making all that shit up," claimed Crimson lawyer and libel expert Ronald K. Oak...
...What you have to understand is that, for landscape architects, Dumbarton Oaks is a very sacred place--a sacred landscape," explains Clarissa Rowe, a Boston architect and president of Historic Massachusetts Inc., who grew up playing in Dumbarton Oak's Farrand gardens...
Thoreau orders Wild Fruits as a botanist might, collecting his notes on each plant in the order in which it blooms. He records the dates of his sightings and the measurements he has made: "September 24, 1859. The common shrub oak is apparently the most fertile of our oaks. I count two hundred sixty-six acorns on a branch just two feet long." But he has trouble keeping poetry out of his descriptions: "August 23, 1858. Abundantly shedding its downy seeds, wands of white and pink." And sometimes the objective mask slips completely: "July 30, 1860. Beautiful...