09 MAY 2012 by ideonexus

 The Life of a Horticulturist

I have always liked horticulturists, people who make their living from orchards and gardens, whose hands are familiar with the feel of the bark, whose eyes are trained to distinguish the different varieties, who have a form memory. Their brains are not forever dealing with vague abstractions; they are satisfied with the romance which the seasons bring with them, and have the patience and fortitude to gamble their lives and fortunes in an industry which requires infinite patience, which raise ...
Folksonomies: botany horticulture
Folksonomies: botany horticulture
   notes

A wonderful quote from David Fairchild. Reference unknown.

23 APR 2012 by ideonexus

 It's Raining DNA Outside

It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it is pumping downy seeds into the air. ... [spreading] DNA whose coded characters spell out specific instructions for building willow trees that will shed a new generation of downy seeds. … It is raining instructions out there; it's raining programs; it's raining tree-growing, fluff-spreading, algorithms. That is not a metaphor, it is the plain truth. It couldn't be any plainer...
Folksonomies: wonder dna
Folksonomies: wonder dna
  1  notes

There is DNA everywhere, in seeds in bacterium, it's all around us, this programming for life.