The Nature of Things

The Nature of ThingsThe Epicureans of ancient Rome discarded the ideas of life after death and of an interventionist God in favor of the tactile pleasures of nature. In The Nature of Things, Lucretius celebrates with wit and sharp perception the extraordinary breadth of the Epicurean belief system, ranging from the indestructibility of atoms and the discovery of fire to the folly of romantic love and the phenomena of clouds and rainstorms. Paperback, 304pages. Publisher:

Tolerates some shade

and he drafts a bill to transform the Albemarle Academy into Central College

was mentioned by Thomas Jefferson as among "the plants [that] abound in this neighborhood

He receives impressions of a mammoth's tooth

1807 notes: "planted 9 Philadelphus coronarius

brow of the slope" of Monticello Mountain

produced in clusters in late spring and sporadically through summer

believed passionately in individual liberty and a more egalitarian society

as well as the first known biography of Milton

Essential for an understanding of classic architecture

Teschemacher recommended the "bloody geranium" for the rock garden

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