Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

“The oak sits at the heart of one of our defining local ecologies most threatened with extinction. The loss of diversity its extinction represents is at an ecosystem rather than organismic level.” ‘Opening the Oak Door,’ illuminated manuscript, Eugene Permaculture Guild, 2005.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @HaddenTurner I greatly enjoyed that, its perennial universalism included. ‘Shakya-muni’, by the by, translates as 'Sage of the Oak Clan', the Buddha's birth family. And the etymology of 'Druid'? 'Derwydd', folk say. 'Oakseer.' Here's how the Oak figures in archetypal horticulture hereabouts.Quoted by@HaddenTurner I greatly enjoyed that, its perennial universalism included. ‘Shakya-muni’, by the by, translates as 'Sage of the Oak Clan', the Buddha's birth family. And the etymology of 'Druid'? 'Derwydd', folk say. 'Oakseer.' Here's how the Oak figures in archetypal horticulture hereabouts.