List of The Vascular Plants in The Red Data Book of Russia

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“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)

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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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If with too credent ear you list his songs,
Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
To his unmastered importunity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“When the
Marne flowed by the plants nodded
And above the glistering Gila
A sunset as beautiful as the Athabasca
Stammered. The Zambezi chimed. The Oxus
Flowed somewhere.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

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cold and caressable;
his eyes were red glass,
much to be desired.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

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—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

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—Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)

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—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)