(totally Under Construction, just a sketch so far, sure to change...)

An Array of Instances and Episodes of my own Phytoengagement:

• the big pine cone
  

  the earliest Phytomemory I can call up is of that 10" pine cone

• the cedar tree at Blairhaven, previously cited
  

• the Blairhaven woods

  perhaps only 10 acres, but wonderfully varied; every inch explored in the early 1950s; every inch turned to grass in 2016

• ...still hunting memories of Phyto-relevant significance, in Andover, Southern California, Cambridge...

• rubber and Development [Sarawak 1965-1967]

  a lot packed into this subject, including forest destruction, oil palm, dam-building, etc.

• systems, ecosystems, Whole Earth Catalog, Gaia [Stanford 1967-72]

  a very intense five years of learning and exploration, many tales

• The Elm Tree at Horton Landing (see more in this gallery of trees at Horton Landing)
  

• agriculture and food systems

  three years of dissertation research on Agricultural Transformation in a Regional System

• gardening at Horton Landing
  

  

• KC Irving owns New Brunswick

  many drives from Nova Scotia to Maine and Massachusetts... plantations of quick-growing conifers for pulp everywhere

• not-seeing the trees for the forest on the Appalachian Trail, 1992-2003

  I must have been watching where my feet were going down, and photography was inactive in our lives

• John-the-son's adventures in lichenology, 1994-1996

  another take on mutualism; awoke curiosity about electron microscopy and small things

• the Amazon adventure, 2002

  A week that I experienced as Green Hell most of the time. I didn't really pay attention to the trees...

• after 2005: Charlie's sawmill, and working with oak and maple (Betsy reminds me that I must have at least 100 tools for working with wood)
  

• Wooden Wunderkammer and an early version of an Introduction