Studied entomology in college (back during the early Pleistocene) but ended up in an unrelated career. I keep a "Life List" of certain insect taxa I've seen (Odonata, Mantodea, Reduviidae and Lepidoptera) and also pursue a bit of birding. Interested in insect paleontology and evolution. My motto is "Respect all life!"

“It is spiritually rewarding merely to be an onlooker.”
-Jacques Cousteau, 1966

“Let it be.”
-Paul McCartney, 1970

“I ka nānā no a ‘ike.”
(“By observing, one learns.”)
-Hawaiian proverb

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”
-Confucius

"I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul."
-Calvin (Bill Watterson) of Calvin and Hobbes, 1995

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