I received a letter from the Chicago Botanic Garden about my  membership. It started like this:

Dear Scrubb,

We’ve noticed that your Garden membership has expired.

Thirty years ago, who would have thought swampy land and foggy lagoons would become the Chicago Botanic Garden we see today? Our members did.

This shows how ignorant the CBG management is. They think wetlands ought to be improved. It’s the kind of mentality people had 100 years ago, the kind of mentality that has led to the disappearance of wetlands today. What a bunch of ecological philistines.