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In naming the plants who shower us with goodness, we recognize that these are gifts from our plant relatives, manifestations of their generosity, care, and creativity. Plants offer whatever they have, to whoever needs it" - Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry

cotton candy sky!!

Fossil leaf of Liquidambar from Pliocene of Italy and Liquidambar growing at the park in 2024 :)

my heart is forest green

continually feeling loved by the earth after a run and berry + coffee + kefir smoothie

sometimes i wonder why we try to publish in high-tier journals... i love a letter that fits in a smaller journal!

also, it's seemingly always a desk rejection from high-tier journals for our own work, yet the same journal requests me to review other work for them :(

btfl 4-km run in the park :)

Here on the shadowy edge of where green life seems barely possible, Schistostega has all it needs. Rain on the outside, fire on the inside. I feel a kinship with this being whose cold light is so different from my own. It asks very little from the world and yet glitters in response. I have been blessed by the companionship of good teachers and I count Schistostega among them.

– Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss

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let me never forget how fortunate i am!! and please let me spread that feeling as far as i can.

“I very proudly entered the forestry school as an 18-year-old and telling them that the reason that I wanted to study botany was because I wanted to know why asters and goldenrod looked so beautiful together. These are these amazing displays of this bright, chrome yellow and deep purple of New England aster, and they look stunning together. And the two plants so often intermingle rather than living apart from one another, and I wanted to know why that was. I thought that surely in the order and the harmony of the universe, there would be an explanation for why they looked so beautiful together. And I was told that that was not science, that if I was interested in beauty, I should go to art school. Which was really demoralizing as a freshman, but I came to understand that question wasn’t going to be answered by science, that science, as a way of knowing, explicitly sets aside our emotions, our aesthetic reactions to things. We have to analyze them as if they were just pure material, and not matter and spirit together. And, yes, as it turns out, there’s a very good biophysical explanation for why those plants grow together, so it’s a matter of aesthetics and it’s a matter of ecology. Those complimentary colors of purple and gold together, being opposites on the color wheel, they’re so vivid, they actually attract far more pollinators than if those two grew apart from one another. So each of those plants benefits by combining its beauty with the beauty of the other. And that’s a question that science can address, certainly, as well as artists. And I just think that “Why is the world so beautiful?” is a question that we all ought to be embracing.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, “The Intelligence of Plants”, from the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett (via peatbogbody)

i love it here :)

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very autumnal outside!!

looking through shame and finding vulnerability, joy, and love again and again and again and again

having a lot of magical moments lately, taking care