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Favorite Trivia – NATURE & HUMAN NATURE
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| “Dogwood Tree: You can always tell a dogwood tree by its bark.”
Evan Esar – Esar’s Comic Dictionary |
| “How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!” George Croly – Diana |
| “The moon was but a chin of gold A night or two ago And now she turns her perfect face Upon the world below . . .” Emily Dickinson |
| “People have always believed in the power inherent in odors. Fragrances and stinks make both people and animals behave in certain ways. Cats love the smell of catnip and lions go into ecstasies over lavender. Eskimos love the smell of fat and a sailor loves the smells of a ship. Rats in China, they say, will pass up cheese any day for a whiff of Ivory Soap. . . Moths abhor cedar.”
Maria Leach – The Soup Stone: The Magic of Familiar Things |
| “Arose before anybody else. Came down and went out to look at Mamma Earth and her green clothes.” [July 20,1885]
The Diary of Thomas Alva Edison |
| “Mie saw me home—there was bright moonlight. Overcome by a beauty thrown at your feet by the world, wherever you look, I couldn’t bear to go indoors.” [October 8, 2000]
Alma Mahler-Werfel: Diaries 1898-1902 – Alma Mahler-Werfel |
| “We must go for a walk in the freshly washed world, he says… There is so much to see, Alina Stefanescu – Little Time |