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In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while…

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Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta…
Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a…
There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis,…
The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size…
Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long…
If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be…
The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years…
As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an…
The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is…
According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the…
The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.

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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify… — Alexander Pope
For grief is crowned with consolation. — William Shakespeare
A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a… — Kenneth Rexroth
You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and… — Thomas Traherne
We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts… — Carolyn Wells
Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity. — Ernest Holmes
Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain. — Fidelis of Sigmaringen
We must love one another. Only [by doing] so can our long years of toil and struggle reach full reward and we… — Susa Young Gates
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with… — William Hazlitt
Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated,… — Olive Schreiner

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