The Palmetto Book Quotes

“I picked one thing out by itself and found it attached to everything and the Universe. I recommend you try it. Don’t settle for what the natural-ist, or historian, or teacher offers. Go beyond what everyone knows. Pull threads, follow leads. Be a little obsessive and look for connections others may have missed. You don’t have to write a book—just revel in the universal connectedness of it all.”
― Jono Miller, The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm

“Too many nature walks are an outdoor reception lines, an introductory handshake followed by some pleasantries. Speed dating the environment. As a result, most of what we know about a given tree species is typically a bouquet of aphorisms that reduce a complex plant to a few memorable talking points.”
― Jono Miller, The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm