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Weather Clichés for Gardeners Word Origins - Ask About the Origins and Meaning of Words at the Word Wizard Word PlayQuotations, clichés, and word play by CASunsetz. "The worst offense you can be guilty of is to use clichés in your writing. One cliché can make your artistic efforts all...
The fortress image has a long prescientific genealogy,with illness itself a metaphor for mortality,for human frailty and vulnerability. John Donne in his great cycle of prose arias on illness,Devotions upon Emergent Occasions(1627),written when he thought he was dying,describes illness as an enemy...
Or, similarly for weather data and mortality data, PP templates for tables and graphics compete against newspapers and classic mortality tables. The 32 control samples, across a great many fields, are compared again and again with PP’s performance. About 90% of the control displays and the ...
Just like Tom, except not quite so bad. There was just a little out and back down a side street to account for the distance we hadn’t quite made. I was fine, I still finished, and still in good time (for me… good time is relative in running, remember), but not quite when I...
one for the bugs, one for the weather and one for himself. - Leo Aikman The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things … have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower. ...
Remember thanks to vaccines being in effect for the past 40 plus years you have been protected from the worst of it by everyone else. There are very few people or places where you would be exposed to the various viruses. In short weather you have taken the va...
Truth is, our love of plants is bound up with a taste for human error, nature's excesses, and sheer unadulterated indulgence." - Terry Hershey, Soul Gardening "Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex." - Oscar Wilde "Scientists know we must protect species because they are ...
"Bad gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at least for a brief moment on...
Information, Weather, Gardening Chores "All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. His instincts prompt him to compete for his place in that community, but his ethics prompt him also to co-operate (perhaps in...