David Galbraith

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Driven by curiosity. Wildlife bio PhD. FRCGS & Explorers Club Fellow. Reconciliation. He/him/his

The massive Hendrie Gates in Hendrie Memorial Park, at Royal Botanical Gardens (Canada) are specially lit up for Winter Wonders.
Royal Botanical Gardens (Canada) at night in wintertime.
Cover of book "Mind in the Waters."
Photograph of Bouganvillia blossoms.
Decorations in a greenhouse at Royal Botanical Gardens (Canada).
Photograph of a bonsai tree at Chicago Botanic Garden.
Cover of book "GardenLust" by Christopher Woods.
Plants at Missouri Botanical Garden.
Cover or book "Le Monde du Silence" by Jacques Cousteau.
A photograph of the plant Plantago major.
Cover of book "HMS Terror."
Photo of a large burdock plant on the grave of early Canadian botanist Catherine (Kate) McGill Crooks Smart in Hamilton, Ontario.
Cover of the book "The Illustrated Dune" by Frank Herbert.
Photograph of plants being propagated at a botanical garden.
Cover of novel The Man Who Fell To Earth.
Photo of a coffee plant with unripe beans.
Photo of a water lily flower and leaves.
Photograph of the leaves of a maple tree in bright red fall colours.
Cover of the book "The Nature of our Cities" by Nadina Galle.
Four singers in Victorian costume carolling in front of Dundurn Castle, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Cover of book "The History and Archaeology of the Iroquois du Nord."
Photograph of yellow rose called "T B McQuesten." Registered as floribunda cultivar "Amber Queen." Photographed at Niagara Parks Botanical Garden.
Cover of the book Godel, Escher, Bach.
A plant in a pot that looks like a human head.
Photograph of an orchid flower.
Cover of Volume 1 of the 2023 three book set "Botanical Gardens and their Role in Plant Conservation" Edited by T. Pullaiah and David Galbraith.
Photograph of poinsettias.
Cover of book "Phytohortology" from Chinese Academy of Science.
Cover of book "Ireland's Generous Nature."
Cover of book "The Growth of Biological Thought" by Ernst Mayr.
Flower of Franklinia, which is extinct in the wild.
Plant at Royal Botanical Gardens (Canada).
Cover of book "I, Robot."
Cover of book "The Hitch-Hikers Guise to the Galaxy."
Cover of novel "The Andromeda Strain"
Cover of short story anthology "Expedition to Earth" by Arthur C. Clarke.
Cover of the 2015 "Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action"
Cover of Isaac Asimov's novel "The Caves of Steel."
Cover of novel "The Godwhale" by T J Bass.
Sunrise over Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Cover of book "The Limits to Growth" Donella Andrews et al. Results of first systems modelling of world economy and resources, 1972.
A quote from 1899 defining the characteristics of a gentleman, or what maybe called today a person of integrity. Author was John Walter Wayland. "The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe."