I am a retired high school Biology and Environmental Science teacher. I live in the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana USA.

"....hardly a natural historian, dead or alive, has ever failed to locate his chief delight in the lovely puzzles, the enchanting beauty, and the excruciating complexity and intractability of actual organisms in real places."

Stephen Jay Gould, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), 1338.