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• Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.
• The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.
• Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay,…
• You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten…
• Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with…
• The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.
• The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence…
• If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.
• What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory…
• During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight…
• Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even…
• It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

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