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Article: WHEN NATURE GOES NUTS.(wildlife nurtured by acorns)
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- National Wildlife
- Article date:
- October 1, 1999
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An astonishing array of animals are linked in some surprising ways to the mighty oak and its bounty
More than 200 years ago, seven-year-old Ep-hraim Farrar walked to the front of a schoolroom in Ipswich, New Hampshire, and recited a verse written for him by a townsman, David Eve-rett. History doesn't record whe-ther the lad earned an A for his elocution skills, but both he and Everett gained a measure of immortality because of two lines that can be found in any book of quotations: "Large streams from little fountains flow. Tall oaks from little acorns grow."
True on both counts! But if you spend an autumn afternoon sitting under an oak that sprouted ...