January 2012
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“Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?”
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
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The best website you'll see this week →
thanks to adamwestbrook:
(You’re welcome).
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Herbert Wernham....
“… if Robert Ross’ predilection was a common one, the story of Herbert Wernham was a little odder. He was a curator in the Botany Department. In the 1910s he wrote on the suitably named madder family, Rubiacea. Edmund Launert told me that Wernham was always broke. He frequently took his wages in cash. He was soon relieved of his earnings by two women who appeared every Friday on...
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December 2011
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