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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in…
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…
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When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming…
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The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
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It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with…
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Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or…
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen…
— Roger Bannister
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It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that.
— Bill Bryson
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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is…
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Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation…
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In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to…
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The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling…
— Billy Campbell
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I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised…
— Hugo Chavez
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Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are…
— Amedeo Modigliani
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The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the…
— Monica Baldwin
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I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I think that everybody has acknowledged that, in controlling foxes, hunting is hardly used as a method at all. To say that…
— Ian Cawsey
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I once visited an RSPCA hospital in Norfolk. I spoke to the vets working there, and asked them how many times they…
— Ian Cawsey
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