Plant systematist, herbarium director, ASPT president, naturalist, in the Chicago suburbs; posts reflect my views, not my employer's.
2024 book: Oak Origins... check it out:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo236998258.html
Andrew Hipp
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Downers Grove after the tornado warning passed
Red headed woodpecker, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social this afternoon (in this savanna.... If you can see the bird you have better eyes than I).
“In order to become a sacred wood, a wood must be tangled and twisted like the forests of the Druids, and not orderly like a French garden.”
– p. 128, Umberto Eco, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
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Rainy morning in Downers Grove, with woodpeckers, wood pewees, mushrooms sprouting, and a passage from Boethius (The Consolation of Philosophy, revisiting after 32 yrs) and Abraham Verghese's magnificent The Covenant of Water.
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Yesterday in @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods, last night in Lyman Woods.
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"The most important feature of [The Book of Knowledge] is that it cannot be effectively searched... It is not arranged alphabetically or by theme... It is arranged to permit the child to make discoveries."
@dchiasso.bsky.social herbarium specimen by Emily Dickinson
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