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You might ask why a fly?
At the time I was reading Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding's book Lord of the Flies which depicts the regression into anarchy of school-children stranded on an unihabitated island (proverbial Garden of Eden) following a plane crash. Substituting an ecological metaphor for William Golding's sociological metaphor we allude to human society and its regression through non-sustainable use of natural resources. The leaf is in fact from a "Plane Tree" which although an alien species has remarkable abilities to survive highly polluted environments and there thereby represents ecological resilience and has a global presence (also there are lots of these trees in our car park and it scanned particularly nicely). Finally we have added our URL http://planet.uwc.ac.za ā which is the main information portal and a web-site that is seriously needing a complete overhauled. The word "Planet" originally used a superscripted āeā so as to read either ePlant or Planet and reflects our ancestry of when we were originally a Botany Department, and one of the first in South Africa to develop world-wide web resources and that our research and outreach operate at a landscape level.
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Heeeeey, you have my name. Congrats! Use it wisely.
By Rich Knight, at 5:27 pm
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