Dainty pink Mt. Diablo buckwheat rediscovered

UC Ber[zer]keley News ^ | 5/24/2005 | By Robert Sanders, Media Relations

[SlowBoat407]

[Tijeras_Slim]

"They couldn't grok that the thing could be so small and dainty."

I take the use of "grok" in normal conversation to be a huge red flag about an individual.

[Cowman]

Oh Tay!!

[Red Badger]

"They couldn't grok that the thing could be so small and dainty."

I can GROK that!.......

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[HereInTheHeartland]

Will Roundup take it out?

[Red Badger]

GROK is from Stranger in a Strange Land........

[Smokin' Joe]

Coming soon to a construction site near you....

Probably blooms once every 40 years....

Drat! One less extinct species...What are we doing wrong? /SARC

[SlowBoat407]

I take the use of "grok" in normal conversation to be a huge red flag about an individual.

But you have to admit, it was used very well in that context.

[beyond the sea]

Dainty pink Mt. Diablo buckwheat rediscovered ----

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Damn, I saw that yesterday in my garden..... and my wife told me to get rid of it...... along with all the other weeds.

;-)

[TheBattman]

So is there a mega-million dollar fund waiting to preserve the habitat like the recently re-discovered Ivory Billed Woodpecker?

[sgtbono2002]

*****"Now we have the chance to understand it, to enjoy it and to know that we haven't done it in!" *****

Plants talk to this guy. Thats funny I guess they have spoken to me too and I just didnt understand.

[nuconvert]

grok

To grok (pronounced GRAHK) something is to understand something so well that it is fully absorbed into oneself. In Robert Heinlein's science-fiction novel of 1961, Stranger in a Strange Land, the word is Martian and literally means "to drink" but metaphorically means "to take it all in," to understand fully, or to "be at one with." Today, grok sometimes is used to include acceptance as well as comprehension - to "dig" or appreciate as well as to know.
As one character from Heinlein's novel says:

'Grok' means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed - to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science - and it means as little to us (because we are from Earth) as color means to a blind man.

In common usage, "Do you grok?" seems close in meaning to "Do you get it?"

[Joe Brower]

OK, that does it. Remove all human habitation from within fifty square miles of the area and cordon it off. Any people living in the new "safe zone" are to have their properties sold under duress, er, "eminent domain".

It's for "our future and the preservation of our biosphere", after all...

[beyond the sea]

BERKELEY – A petite pink flower -------

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Not Nancy 'Karla Marx' Pelosi???

[JCEccles]

Stranger in a Strange Land

I grok, man. That's exactly how I feel whenever I stroll through the Berkeley campus.

[Tijeras_Slim]

GROK is from Stranger in a Strange Land........

I know where it's from, but it tells me a bit too much about the person using it (sort of the verbal equivalent of rubber Spock ears).

[Calvin Locke]

"If it had really been lost, it would have been gone
forever, and a unique part of our heritage vanished permanently,"

Lord Almighty, what are we, er, "they" going to do when the Sun transforms in to a Red Giant?

Or the next cosmic collision comes to biosphere near them?

Or Gaia throws a continental plate?

Or Mother Earths decides to let off steam, ash, mud, lava, lethal gases, in the vicinity of Mt. Diablo?

Or ...?

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, stardust back to stardust.

[Red Badger]

Well, we are talking about a UC Berkeley grad student.......That's more than enough information to grok......