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Kollibri terre Sonnenblume's avatar

Thanks for including me in a footnote!

The T.S. Eliot quotation is one of my all-time favorite quotations. These days, I wonder if he would add the line, "Where is the information we have lost in data?"

I appreciated this: "The funny thing about this is that neither of us would likely have been able to identify most of the invasive species we encountered—especially the plants." This is a point rarely made that I'd like to help make more widespread: In a place we don't know, we would not be able to identify what is native or "invasive" because "invasives" don't have unique traits that set them apart. I think a lot of people might be surprised to learn this.

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Jason Anthony's avatar

Thank you, Andrea, for threading my work into this excellent essay. You do a great job of exploring the nuances between knowledge and experience as we reintroduce ourselves to the living world. As with so many things, there are students' learning styles and teachers' intuition at play here. And then those of us figuring it out as we go need to be both student and teacher, toggling between embracing and learning. Happy to have found your work.

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