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> [“A year earlier, representatives of thirteen states had assembled in Philadelphia and declared their intention to form a more perfect union, but what had come of their declaration was a long way from being a union, let alone a perfect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-ketchum/a-year-earlier-representatives-of-thirteen-states-had-assembled-in/)

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## More by Richard M. Ketchum

> [“A year earlier, representatives of thirteen states had assembled in Philadelphia and declared their intention to form a more perfect union, but what had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-ketchum/a-year-earlier-representatives-of-thirteen-states-had-assembled-in/)

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> [“The most important surviving relics of the primitive plants are mosses and ferns, which give us a clue to how ancient plants solved the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-ketchum/the-most-important-surviving-relics-of-the-primitive-plants-are/)

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> [“We know a great deal more than the Greeks did about the forces of life. But with all our knowledge, no one fully comprehends…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-ketchum/we-know-a-great-deal-more-than-the-greeks-did-about-the-forces-of/)

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> [“By the time a tree is full-grown, the underground root system is enormous; a mature oak tree, for example, has literally hundreds of miles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-ketchum/by-the-time-a-tree-is-full-grown-the-underground-root-system-is/)

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> [“The purpose was to insure that their regular pollinators - animals that would best serve the plant, not chance visitors that raided its pollen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-ketchum/the-purpose-was-to-insure-that-their-regular-pollinators-animals-that/)

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> [“The first forests about which anything is known were made up of the simplest kinds of plants, all of them spore-produced - horsetails, club…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-ketchum/the-first-forests-about-which-anything-is-known-were-made-up-of-the/)

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> [“Our people are not calculated to be confined in garrisons or kept in any particular service; they soon grow troublesome and uneasy by reflecting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-ketchum/our-people-are-not-calculated-to-be-confined-in-garrisons-or-kept-in/)

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> [“Photosynthesis, the activity that ultimately makes all life possible, permits plants to trap energy from the sun and store it in the form of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-ketchum/photosynthesis-the-activity-that-ultimately-makes-all-life-possible/)

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> [“To understand how the first tree appeared on Earth, we must look back more than 3 billion years to Earth’s cooling off and changing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-ketchum/to-understand-how-the-first-tree-appeared-on-earth-we-must-look-back/)

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> [“In their urge for survival, the seed-bearing trees hit upon countless different devices for carrying pollen from one flower to another, but essentially the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-ketchum/in-their-urge-for-survival-the-seed-bearing-trees-hit-upon-countless/)

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> [“A plant has been defined as a living thing that absorbs in microscopic amounts over its surface all that it needs for growth. Through”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-ketchum/a-plant-has-been-defined-as-a-living-thing-that-absorbs-in/)

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> [“food chain - the vitally important system by which matter from soil and air passes through plants and animals and back to soil and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-ketchum/food-chain-the-vitally-important-system-by-which-matter-from-soil-and/)

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