![]() ![]() It was probably as close to enlightenment as I’ll ever come. ![]() In silence we fingered our way down slender kinked stems, measuring the delicate shoots attached to them, jotting numbers. With the eelgrass, for instance, it was me, a professor, a couple of other conscripts, a mixing bowl overflowing with eelgrass, and nothing but time. It is so central to any ecological question, but my god can it be boring. In part I love counting’s essential mundanity. I love to count, and as a student of ecology I have counted many things over the years: sandpipers, whales, ducks, deer mice, penguins, internodes on eelgrass rhizomes, to name just a few.
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