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The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm
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Alston Lecture at the Atlanta Botanical Garden
I was honored to be invited to make a presentation at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in October of 2022, just a few weeks after Hurricane Ian swept through southwest Florida. This talk starts with some reflections on Ian and cabbage palms, then covers a few basics, describes some intriguing cabbage palm paradoxes, and ends with some observations about cabbage palms in Georgia, including a puzzling q
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My favorite is Chapter 19 dealing with the sweetgrass baskets and palmetto roses in South Carolina.
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Ms. Childers: I periodically have a chance to correct errors in my book (I've found three so far), so, if you have the patience, I would appreciate yo
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“I picked one thing out by itself and found it attached to everything and the Universe. I recommend you try it. Don’t settle for what the natural-ist, or historian, or teacher offers. Go beyond what everyone knows. Pull threads, follow leads. Be a little obsessive and look for connections others may have missed. You don’t have to write a book—just revel in the universal connectedness of it all.”
― The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm
― The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm
“Too many nature walks are an outdoor reception lines, an introductory handshake followed by some pleasantries. Speed dating the environment. As a result, most of what we know about a given tree species is typically a bouquet of aphorisms that reduce a complex plant to a few memorable talking points.”
― The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm
― The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm
“Too many nature walks are an outdoor reception lines, an introductory handshake followed by some pleasantries. Speed dating the environment. As a result, most of what we know about a given tree species is typically a bouquet of aphorisms that reduce a complex plant to a few memorable talking points.”
― The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm
― The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm
“I also hope this book makes each reader aware that his or her personal observations and encounters in the most ordinary of landscapes can and will raise questions and issues routinely avoided by programmed educational and entertainment authorities.”
― Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places
― Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places
“I picked one thing out by itself and found it attached to everything and the Universe. I recommend you try it. Don’t settle for what the natural-ist, or historian, or teacher offers. Go beyond what everyone knows. Pull threads, follow leads. Be a little obsessive and look for connections others may have missed. You don’t have to write a book—just revel in the universal connectedness of it all.”
― The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm
― The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm
“Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another, or even from one lake to another anywhere. A canoe trip has become simply a rite of oneness with certain terrain, a diversion off the field, an art performed not because it is a necessity but because there is value in the art itself.”
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