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Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to…
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[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as…
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Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.
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Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting…
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Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.
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The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.
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Islands are where species go to die.
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Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered…
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Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate…
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To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something…
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By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
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Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both),…
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Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open,…
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