User:Dank

On sabbatical

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:

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

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

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

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 gymnosperm families

• Canadian conifers
• US conifers
• US hardwoods