"Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme"
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--John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
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Our name comes from the opening lines of John Keats' poem Ode on a Grecian Urn. The word sylvan means one dwelling in or knowledgeable of the forest. The phrase brings together our loves of poetry, art, history, and the natural world, and the idea of the vessel as a container that carries, holds, and helps to nourish us.
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