Michael Largo > Quotes

“Good-bye—if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. —AMBROSE BIERCE”
― Michael Largo, Genius and Heroin: Creativity, Obsession and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages

“Oleander ranks in the top five ornamental plants that cause fatalities.”
― Michael Largo, The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora

“good to use to start fires. Elder is a derivative of an Anglo-Saxon word for kindling.”
― Michael Largo, The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora

“Once fertilized, the ears grow into cobs, which are filled with kernels, or seeds.”
― Michael Largo, The Big, Bad Book of Botany: The World's Most Fascinating Flora