I remember the first time I read the word “licorice fern.” It was stamped clearly into the stone wall of one of the staircases at Multnomah Falls. I had recently emigrated to the west side of Oregon from the high desert of the east side of the state, for school, so I was taking every…
Tag: botany
Annette Lake & Knowing Less
I've often heard iterations of the phrase "the more you learn, the less you know" -- if you're human and you speak English, you've probably heard it, too. I suppose there are as many ways to interpret the phrase as there are letters comprising it, but the way I see it is that one who…