Showing posts with label Tennyson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tennyson. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Ants get in trouble when they take antacid


Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson was born on this day in 1809. He wrote:

"What is it all but a trouble of ants
In the gleam of a million million of suns?"

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Today is World Environment Day!


"Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal;
The mayfly is torn by the swallow, the swallow speared by the shrike,
And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey."

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson