Shitao/botany

The Botany Libraries provides digital reproduction or scanning services of materials in the libraries' collections for a fee. The staff reserves the right to restrict reproduction of its materials due to condition, size, donor requirements, or staffing issues. Any manipulation of digitized images beyond cropping and minor adjustments to balance and contrast is strictly forbidden.

The Harvard University Herbaria, with more than
5 million specimens, are one of the 10 largest Herbaria in the world in number of specimens, and along with the library, form the world's largest university owned herbarium.

A collection of works on flowers and gardens from some of the masters of painting.

There Are Not Many Kingdoms Left


I write the lips of the moon upon her shoulders. In a
temple of silvery farawayness I guard her to rest.

For her bed I write a stillness over all the swans of the
world. With the morning breath of the snow leopard I
cover her against any hurt.

Using the pen of rivers and mountaintops I store her
pillow with singing.

Upon her hair I write the looking of the heavens at
early morning.

-- Away from this kingdom, from this last undefiled
place, I would keep our governments, our civilization, and
all other spirit-forsaken and corrupt institutions.

O cold beautiful blossoms of the moon moving upon
her shoulders . . . the lips of the moon moving there

where the touch of any other lips would be a profanation.

Kenneth Patchen