Garden of words

Nature is a dictionary

  • Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

    - Eugene Delacroix

  • Dictionary: the universe in alphabetical order.

    - Anatole France

  • Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together in a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language — not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may need to read the great book which is written in that tongue.

    - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scallop

noun, a kind of mollusk with two deeply grooved, curved shells, that swims by rapidly snapping its shells together

Shrimps and scallops are healthy forms of seafood, low in toxins and high in good quality protein and minerals.

Spoonbill

noun, a long legged wading bird with pink plumage and a flattened beak found on every continent except Antarctica

Spoonbills and all birds connect us with the joy and wonder of nature.

Strength

noun
1. power, capacity or endurance

2. the resolve to withstand great force or pressure

3. the potency or concentration of a chemical

1. Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Oprah Winfrey

2. Courage is to accept where I am in this moment and gather the strength to go forward.
Adele Badger

3. Never trust your fears, they don’t know your strength.

Trademark

noun
1. an easily recognized symbol, phrase or word that represents a product

2. to legally register a word or symbol

1. Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark.
Jay Danzie

2. You can’t trademark the word ‘Sci-fi’.
Bonnie Hammer

Weary

adjective
1. tired, fatigued, physically or mentally exhausted

2. bored or resigned

1. Never flinch, never weary, never despair.
Winston Churchill

2. Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they don’t want to do.
Eric Hoffer

Wetland

noun, a habitat in which salt, fresh or brackish water covers the soil seasonally or permanently. It functions as it own distinct ecosystem.

Wetlands are like a small version of Earth themselves because they are the homes to so many different types of plants and animals.

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