ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY HORTICULTURE CENTER PRESENTS

The Department of Agriculture is one of eight departments and schools within the College of Applied Science and Technology at Illinois State University. This document is available in alternative formats upon request Celebrating 10 years by contacting the Horticulture Center at (309) 438-3496. by connecting nature and literature An equal opportunity/affirmative action university encouraging diversity

University Marketing and Communications 15-0940 printed on recycled paper HorticultureCenter.IllinoisState.edu In celebration of 10 years, Some of the authors included No better proof of the reality of this prairie The authors’ selected works are tied to their Sponsorship the Illinois State University Horticulture Center in the Literary Garden: could have been given than the silence which it respective plants or gardens using signage Your financial support of this garden provides that includes QR codes. The code will direct a unique enrichment opportunity introduces the Literary Garden. Wendell Berry Donald Peattie inspired in myself and my companion. We had burst into exclamations of delight a dozen times smartphones to the Center’s website, which for our community. Nature and literature are wonderful companions. Louis Bromfield Gene Stratton-Porter will play the selected audio file. The Literary Garden connects passages from Willa Cather James Witcomb Riley before, when the little glades opened around Please Contact Jessica Chambers for more Below is a QR Code that connects to information about sponsoring this garden. literature with the part of nature that inspired the Eliza Farnham Carl Sandburg us, but now there was not a word uttered. our Literary Garden website: author. It showcases authors from the Midwest Langston Hughes Shel Silverstein Both were lost in contemplation of the sublime who have written passionately about agriculture, (309) 438-3496 Ted Kooser Wallace Stegner spectacle which lay before us. We had no horticulture, or the environment. HorticultureCenter.IllinoisState.edu Lois Lenski Mark Twain inquiries to make. Nature spoke to us in Aldo Leopold Roger Welsch her own unequivocal language.” Edgar Lee Masters Laura Ingalls-Wilder Life in Prairie Land 1846 by Eliza Farnham John Neihardt