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    September 1, 2022
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  • • Conservation & Research
    That’s a Lot of Lichens

    The Garden’s Conservation and Research department works to document California’s biodiversity and part of that work happens in its lichenarium. Much of the Garden’s conservation…

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Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.

Jane Goodall

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Chinese Proverb

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

“…the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.”

Ursula K. Le Guin

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