“Fortunately, perhaps, though science is close to the center of the stage, it does not occupy that center. The problem is essentially concerned with the organization of human societies, and not with the physical basis of such societies.”
Urey, Harold C. "Technology: Peace or War." Social Science 21, no. 4 (1946): 278.
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“Convection occurred during a first epoch of the earth's existence in a single cell with more dense parts moving to the interior. The less dense surface areas floated to one hemisphere and formed one contient. This convection proceeded for about one cycle because the higher density material remained at the center of the earth.”
Urey, Harold C. "On the Origin of Continents and Mountains." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 39, no. 9 (1953): 943.
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“Gilbert argued that the collision maria resulted from collisions of satellites of the earth-moon system with the moon's surface. The escape energy of the moon is about 2.8 X 10 to the 10th power ergs g to the power of minus 1 and hence is sufficient to melt the colliding object and some of the moon's surface materials, and so molten pools could be expected to occur on the moon."
Urey, Harold C. "On the Origin of Continents and Mountains." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 39, no. 9 (1953): 940.
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“In daylight red is a conspicuous color, but in the sea a red object appears quite black at a distance of only a few meters owing to the rapidity with which red rays are absorbed by water; and at depths below the penetration of the red rays it could not appear red at all because an object can appear in its true color only when bathed in light with rays of its own color.”
Sverdrup, H. U., Martin W. Johnson, and Richard Howell Fleming. The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1942. pp. 829-830.
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“In those rare cases the cities, villages, meadows, and forests, with all their birds, flowers, animals, rivers, trees, and humans, that surround such a person, all collaborate to educate, serve, challenge, and instruct such a one, until that person also becomes a New Beginner Enlightened Being.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 182.
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“Summer forest: intense play of sun and the vegetation in still steady presence—not giving up water, not wilting, not stressing, just quietly holding. Shrubs with small, aromatic, waxy, tough leaves. The shrub color is often blue-gray.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 137.
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“You can almost totally recall the place you walked, played, biked, swam. Revisualizing that place with its smells and textures, walking through it again in your imagination, has a grounding and settling effect.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 26.
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“A sensibility of this sort might help explain why there is so little "landscape poetry" from the cultures of the old ways. Nature description is a kind of writing that comes with civilization and its habits of collection and classification. Chinese landscape poetry begins around the fifth century A.D. with the work of Hsieh Ling-yun.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 21.
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“Of plants—self-propagating, self-maintaining, flourishing in accord with innate qualities.
Of land—a place where the original and potential vegetation and fauna are intact and in full interaction and the landforms are entirely the result of nonhuman forces. Pristine.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 10.
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“Civilizations east and west have long been on a collision course with wild nature, and now the developed nations in particular have the witless power to destroy not only individual creatures but whole species, whole processes of the earth. We need a civilization that can live fully and creatively together with wildness. We must start growing it right here, in the New World.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 6.
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“Out of the turning and twisting calcined cave walls, a sea of fissures, calcite concretions . . . stalactites. . . old claw-scratchings of cave bears, floors of bear-wallows & slides; the human finger-tracings in clay, early scribblings, scratched-in lines and sketchy little engravings of half-done creatures or just abstract signs, lines crossed over lines, images over images; out of this ancient swirl of graffiti rise up the exquisite figures of animals: swimming deer with antler cocked up, a pride of lions with noble profiles, fat wild horses, great-bodied bison, huge-horned wild bulls, antlered elk; painted and powerfully outlined creatures alive with the life that art gives: on the long-lost mineraled walls below ground.”
Snyder, Gary. “Entering the Fiftieth Millennium.” Profession, 1997. p. 38
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“I have seen photographs, for instance, of girls going out on horseback with libraries strapped on behind them, taking books to children and grown people in places that have been without libraries.”
Roosevelt, Eleanor. "What Libraries Mean to Nations." Speech, District of Columbia Library Association Dinner, Washington, D.C., April 1, 1936.
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“But the cave painters, the body painters and scarifiers, the trance dancers and singers looked inward into imagination and mystery. They were concerned with the unseen and with memory, rather than with the rational future.”
Revelle, Roger. "Outdoor Recreation in a Hyper-Productive Society." Daedalus 96, no. 4 (1967): 1172-191. Accessed July 20, 2021.p. 1172.
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“For our purposes, we can calculate the information content of voice input by treating speech as a sequence of input symbols, rather than as a continuous phenomenon with a certain bandwidth and duration.”
Raskin, Jef. The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2011. p. 87.
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