I regret my failure to acknowledge Bill Watterson in my thesis because Calvin and Hobbes were such an inspiration during my grad school years.

I just stumbled across a book called Dark Botany: The Herbarium Tales and I am rearranging my weekend plans accordingly.

There's going to be a huge emergence of cicadas this spring. What a great time to pick up the world's best illustrated field guide to cicadas!
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In the midst of darkness, there is something beautiful about choosing to chase the light.

The word chionophile, a snow-loving organism that thrives in harsh winter conditions, may apply to the plant I am currently studying but it certainly doesn’t apply to me.

I love reading papers by early American botanists whose descriptions of the natural world expressed a deep appreciation and sometimes a touch of awe.

The botanical term fugacious means falling or withering early, like the flowers of a blue-eyed grass. Wondering if it may apply to other ephemeral things like thoughts or joy.