“Ferns delighted me with their curlicues, their croziers, their Victorian quality (not unlike the frilled antimacassars and lacy curtains in our house.) But at a deeper level, they filled me with wonder because they were of such ancient origin… My sense of a prehistoric world, of immense spans of time, was first stimulated by ferns and fossil ferns…”
[Oaxaca Journal – Oliver Sacks]
Diego Tavares Vasques Ph.D. 