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Baucus and Philemon, or two trees in love
One of Ancient Rome’s greatest poets, Ovid, wrote this fable, the story of two honored trees: Baucus and Philemon, an elderly couple in Greece, had…
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“Tongues in trees, and good in everything”
In Shakespeare’s play As You Like It, a character called Duke Senior has been exiled by his younger brother to the Forest of Arden. As…
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Fippokats in space!
Kill your darlings, they say. Cut the parts from your book that don’t move the plot forward, even if you love them. So, on the…
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My new favorite plant: a progress report
On Mother’s Day this year, I wrote about my new favorite plant, this Rhipsalis creuscula or coral cactus. My brother had mailed me some cuttings…
Semiosis 