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Naming the Plants

Naming the Plants the Glade Valley School community return readers to a simpler time when people learned for the sheer enjoyment. That Glade Valley School would close because of financial a time when opportunities for formal education scarcely existed. The Glade Valley School story needed to be told, for it is a chronicle of how forgotten people. difficulties seems ultimately unfair, for it gave so much to so many at dedication, hard work, and faith brought the light of education to a -Marshall Myers All the species of plants had names before the rise of man. Deer and rabbit knew them: coarse -one, green-in-spring, stringy-leaf, bitter-stem, fuzzy-feel, autumn-fare. Wind knew them too: supple-stem, shallow-rooted, brittle-one. Fire roared their names: susceptible, resistant-one, dependent-seed. Predators recognized them as they moved from shrub to shrub: silent-one, cracks-where-you-step, rustleswhen-you-pass, rattles-as-we-walk. Only we thought to name them for ourselves: Viburnam Rafinesquianum, Crataegus Douglasii, Linnaea borealis. -Nancy Sather http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Naming the Plants

Appalachian Review , Volume 27 (3) – Jan 8, 1999

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University of North Carolina Press
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Abstract

the Glade Valley School community return readers to a simpler time when people learned for the sheer enjoyment. That Glade Valley School would close because of financial a time when opportunities for formal education scarcely existed. The Glade Valley School story needed to be told, for it is a chronicle of how forgotten people. difficulties seems ultimately unfair, for it gave so much to so many at dedication, hard work, and faith brought the light of education to a -Marshall Myers All the species of plants had names before the rise of man. Deer and rabbit knew them: coarse -one, green-in-spring, stringy-leaf, bitter-stem, fuzzy-feel, autumn-fare. Wind knew them too: supple-stem, shallow-rooted, brittle-one. Fire roared their names: susceptible, resistant-one, dependent-seed. Predators recognized them as they moved from shrub to shrub: silent-one, cracks-where-you-step, rustleswhen-you-pass, rattles-as-we-walk. Only we thought to name them for ourselves: Viburnam Rafinesquianum, Crataegus Douglasii, Linnaea borealis. -Nancy Sather

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1999

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