![]() What problem? That of classifying, differentiating, identifying … Why bother to do this? Why give them names at all, and if we must, why not characterise them by the birds that nest in them, the creatures that live in them, chewing little holes that is, identify them by where they sit in the hosting of the endless feed chain that we would need, if we lived among trees in the aboriginal way? ![]() How many species there are today, I don’t know, and I don’t much care because I know that the number will change again as other, newer minds approach the problem … Since then, I discover, scientists have been re-classifying, and the process never stops. ![]() ![]() I found it reassuring to know, when I stood surrounded by bewildering bush, that trained minds had been through before me. When I first became interested in trees, authorities said there were just over six hundred eucalypts this number included sub-species identified with a further name, as for example, Eucalyptus albens var. ![]()
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