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"Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive."
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"Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket."

"These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep."

"Put your ears to the ground, to the sky, to the sun and the moon... tune in to Mother Earth's sweet song. She has messages to say, knowledge to relay, inspiration to convey... there is much for you to learn. Your journey has just begun."

"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."

"Be thankful for every mountain, because it's the mountain top that will give you best view of the world."
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"Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia."

"China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution."

"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."

"If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space."

"There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history."

"Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year."

"If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so."
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