Dank

Hi, I'm Dan. Feel free to reminisce with me about some shiny things I've received over my years on Wikipedia, or wander around my userspace. Some observations on Wikipedia:

Carl Sagan

No place for beginners or sensitive hearts
when sentiment is left to chance
No place to be ending, but somewhere to start

— Sade, "Smooth Operator"

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group ... people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds [are] working in some sense together – surely a humanizing and character building experience.

— Carl Sagan, in Cosmos

Sherlock Holmes

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

— Sherlock Holmes, in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Boscombe Valley Mystery

We choose [these things], not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because [they] will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills

— John F. Kennedy, "We choose to go to the Moon"

Botany

(For POWO, see their terms of use.)

Plant etymology

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

— Enrico Fermi

With generous help from PawełMM at the Graphics Lab, PresN, DavidAnstiss, Nomen ambiguum, Featured List reviewers, and Johnboddie, who did most of the work selecting images

• List of descriptive plant species epithets (A–H)
• List of descriptive plant species epithets (I–Z)
• List of plant genus names with etymologies (A–C)
• List of plant genus names with etymologies (D–K)
• List of plant genus names with etymologies (L–P)
• List of plant genus names with etymologies (Q–Z)

• List of plant genera named for people (A–C)
• List of plant genera named for people (D–J)
• List of plant genera named for people (K–P)
• List of plant genera named for people (Q–Z)
• List of plant family names with etymologies

Plant families

• List of gymnosperm families

• List of alismatid families
• List of basal asterid families
• List of basal eudicot families
• List of basal superasterid families
• List of COM-clade families
• List of commelinid families

• List of early-diverging flowering plant families
• List of euasterid families
• List of lilioid families
• List of malvid families
• List of nitrogen-fixing-clade families
• List of Saxifragales, Vitales and Zygophyllales families

Forest-inventory conifers

• Canada
• Western United States