"In 1870 the American Independent ran an article from Charles Dickens’ magazine All the Year Round titled ‘Have Plants Intelligence?’ The provocative question in the title was designed to spark intuitive negative responses, but the paragraphs that follow rehearse a clear argument in the affirmative. ... Emily Dickinson was, by all accounts, a skillful and dedicated gardener. Throughout her isolation at her parents’ house on Main Street in Amherst, Dickinson continued to raise plants, arrange bouquets, and send cuttings to distant friends. As a student she scouted for new flowers to press into her bound herbarium, and in winter, to keep plants warm, she brought them into the conservatory built against the southeastern wall of the house. ...”
2016 December: Studies in Scale - Excerpts by Emily Dickinson and Jen Bervin, 2018 April: A Quiet Passion - Terence Davies (2016)
Page from Emily Dickinson’s herbarium, c. 1840.
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