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StaceGhost
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Fascinating to hear how much oaks impact the ecosystem— I wonder if we can find a place to grow one even if we move to the city. Great book either way & very well researched

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shanaqui

I'm not incredibly comfortable with defining “Welshness“ as being largely defined by language, owing to the suppression of the Welsh language by the English. Aaaand I think some people would be super uncomfortable with the fact that this book claims the term “indigenous“ for the Welsh (not wrong).

I'm with Glyn Jones for a definition of Welshness:

“To me, anyone can be a Welshman who chooses to be so and is prepared to take the consequences.“

shanaqui That was the Glyn Jones who wrote novels and a non-fiction book called The Dragon Has Two Tongues, about Welsh writers who wrote in English, like Dylan Thomas, Caradoc Evans, Margiad Evans, Menna Gallie, etc.

As opposed to the one who specialised in translating Icelandic sagas and wrote novels.
Or the figure skater, the English and Welsh football players, the rugby player, the South African/Welsh writer, or the last British governer of Malawi...
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shanaqui We have a limited number of names in Wales, as you see.

Anyway, I speak almost no Welsh and was born in England, but both paternal and maternal branches of my family go back in Wales as far as they've been traced (with some English and Irish mixing in), and I was raised to love Wales and consider it my home. I do wish I spoke Welsh, but not speaking Welsh isn't a barrier to being Welsh.
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shanaqui I have a non-Welsh name (or at least my birth certificate does; online I've started going by a Welsh name in some places) because my parents thought I'd be bullied.

My dad didn't learn fluent Welsh from his native speaker father because his father thought he'd do better speaking just English, and never taught me any Welsh at all because he felt he wasn't a real Welsh speaker.

It's a whole complicated sad thing.
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Hooked_on_books
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Bailedbailed

This one just isn‘t working for me. I‘m not a fan of the writing or the structure, which frequently flips into memoir after a very short snippet of science.

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Chelsea.Poole
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Pickpick

What a little gem of a book. This is all about milkweed which provides food and shelter for the monarch butterfly but also many other species. The illustrations in this book are lovely and the accompanying text focuses on where this plant grows, its structure, diseases of the plant, the many insects found on and around it, and the story of a farm in California bringing back a native prairie. PS I currently have 7 chrysalises thanks to this plant!

Suet624 I‘m blessed with milkweed and monarchs this year. They bring such joy. 2mo
Mollyanna I have milkweed but haven‘t seen any monarchs. 🥲. The milkweed are in amongst my hydrangeas though. I should probably read this book. 😊 2mo
AnnCrystal 😍💮🐛🦋💝. 2mo
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Chelsea.Poole @Suet624 I love them. We just released 5 butterflies this morning 🥹 @AnnCrystal (edited) 1mo
Chelsea.Poole @Mollyanna we had an odd year last year with none, but this year we‘ve had a few! My issue is with preying mantises that eat the baby caterpillars. 😔 1mo
AnnCrystal @Chelsea.Poole
👏🏼🤩💖🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋💖.
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Bat Ecology | Thomas H. Kunz, M. Brock Fenton
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@TieDyeDude I saw this poster advertising evening bat spotting tours on the River Cam and immediately thought of you! 😄🦇🚣🏻‍♀️

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TheSpineView
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Eggs Beautiful cover 🌻 3mo
TheSpineView @Eggs 👍💜📘 3mo
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Bookfan1414
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Did I pick this book as my next read because it made me giggle? Yes. Yes I did.

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lil1inblue
Silent Spring | Rachel Carson
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TheBookHippie All her books so very good. I‘ve read this one a few times. 5mo
lil1inblue @TheBookHippie 😍 I need to read more of her work. I adore the writing in this one. Any other recommendations? 5mo
TheBookHippie @lil1inblue To honor Rachel Carson on the centennial of her birth in 2007, Penguin Classics proudly published a centennial edition of Under the Sea-Wind, Carson‘s first book and her personal favorite. 5mo
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lil1inblue @TheBookHippie Excellent! Thank you! 💓 💓 💓 5mo
TheBookHippie This one is good too. Warm fuzzies. 5mo
Eggs Excellent choice 👏🏻👏🏻 5mo
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ravenlee
Silent Spring | Rachel Carson
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For being dated, this book is still absolutely on point. All the arguments are as valid as ever. Definitely worth reading if you haven‘t. It was hard going, reading about so many dead animals and sick people, but we need to keep books like this in regular rotation.

TheBookHippie I‘ve read this three times. I do enjoy her other works as well. 6mo
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