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Imagine the excitement of discovery. Darwin jotted down thoughts on walking through a rainforest: ‘I have been wandering by myself in a Brazilian forest . . . The delight one experiences in such times bewilders the mind. —if the eye attempts to follow the flight of a gaudy butterfly, it is arrested by some strange tree or fruit; if watching an insect one forgets it in the stranger flower it is crawling over . . . it is nearly impossible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings which are excited; wonder, admiration & sublime devotion fill & elevate the mind.’

But discovery is often not immediate. Above a certain size, the find will not be new to the original inhabitants. Are they sure it’s new to science? And then what? If rare, can we conserve it? And what about other species, the many thousands becoming endangered? We are inept at caring.
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Charles Darwin’s Beagle Diary (1832), RD Keynes, ed., Cambridge UP 2001, p42,59.

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from Thirteen Ways of Considering Black Birds, released June 5, 2023

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John Bennett and John Laidler Sydney, Australia

John Bennett is primarily a curious poetic life-form.

John Laidler loves making sounds, and walks at approximately 4 km per hour.

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