BotanicalShakespeare
@BotanicalShax
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Gorgeous illustrations (that you can recognize in the wild) of ALL the named plants in the Bard's canon + all their quotes (& a dictionary)
Joined January 2017
For nothing this wide Universe I call, .Save thou, my Rose; in it though art my all. ~Sonnet 109.
Pliny the Elder, a 1st c. Roman scholar & author, recorded 32 medicinal uses for rose petals & leaves, including plasters, eye-salves, and rose wine. He claimed rose wine eased nervous tension, and sleeping on pillows filled with rose leaves could soothe the mind. #RoseWednesday
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RT @TiCLme: #thicktrunktuesday. thick and twisted. The Tehidy Country Park Beech. #GreatTreesof Cornwall @Botany2021 .#GreatTrees of Britai….
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RT @keeper_of_books: if trees woke up one day they would be friendly with good people, so if you're good nothing to worry about.
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RT @Marilyn_Res: “The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.”.~Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday
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RT @Subr475: #ShakespeareSunday . Th’ abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.”. Julius Caesar (2.1.19-20) https://t.co/….
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RT @HollowCrownFans: "We were not born to sue, but to command;" - Richard II (A1, S1) #ShakespeareSunday
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RT @ShakespeareRes: Bloody thou art; bloody will be thy end. Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend. Richard III (4.4) #Shakespea….
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RT @druidtombraider: "The weary sun hath made a golden set,.And by the bright track of his fiery car.Gives token of a goodly day tomorrow.—….
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RT @nml423: “Then, in God's name, march:.True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings” - Richard III (Act 5, Scene 2) #ShakespeareSun….
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RT @St4fford_deWolf: Henry V [IV, 0] ⚜️ 🗡️Agincourt. Chorus. 💫.'His liberal eye doth give to everyone, thawing cold fear, that mean and gen….
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For #ShakespeareSunday #RichardIII.🌹Their lips were four RED ROSES on a stalk, Which in their summer beauty kiss’d each other.🌹~Tyrrell, RIII [IV, 3].#DaughterOfTime abt whether R3 killed the princes in the Tower is playing now in London!🥀
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RT @TiCLme: The weary sun hath made a golden set. Richard III 5.3.20. #ShakespeareSunday. @HollowCrownFans @StormHour @BotanicalShax @BSASh….
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