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Re: [SANS] Continued learning

At 09:06 AM 7/18/99 -0400, Juan Chahinian wrote:
>HI all,
>Hermine wrote.
>
>"so you cannot "trust' anybody, but yourself, to know what plants really
>look like as at least, say, half-grown adults."
>
>I do not trust anybody and  I do not trust even myself.
>
>When somebody (anybody) says I am wrong, my first reaction is NOT :"No, I am
>right". My first reaction is to ask the person why he/she thinkg I am wrong
>and go from there. There is the big difference between people who learn every
>day and people with an attitude.
>
>I am sure Hermine totally agrees with me, because we discussed the subject
>many years ago and I still remember what she said :"You never know who your
>teacher is going to be"


Shucks, I was quoting Buddha!

what i meant was, if i see a dried edge, white, with a red margin, i know i
see it, no matter who has written or said, it should not be there.

I have also the experience of telling people what something is NOT (without
being always able to give them an answer about what it is) and this leads
to the same tag being there. and as i said, my greatest contribution is
knowing when something is NOT what it is called.

There is also no collection of plants too small or humble for me to rush to
see it in the hopes there is something for ME i do not have.

Misnaming plants in Botanical gardens is not that rare. i think they need
to convene a committee to change  label!

I am bummed out over the JFK Jr Plane crash.

hermine
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