Rudolf Amandus Philippi

German-chilean naturalist and palaeontologist (1808-1904).

Born September 14th, 1808 in Charlottenburg.

Died July 23rd, 1904 at 95 years old in Santiago.

Occupations
biologist, botanical collector, botanist, draftsperson, geologist, malacologist, naturalist, ornithologist, paleontologist, photographer, scientific collector, scientific explorer, university teacher, zoologist

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner